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...They weren't really patient on offense," Rankin said. "They got stalled a lot by the shot clock...
Sumner Redstone, a man who does not easily toss in his cards, was determined not to be shunted aside in the bidding war for Paramount Communications last week. As the clock ticked down toward a Friday-midnight deadline for new bids, Wall Street was wondering whether Viacom Inc.'s chairman would be able to pull a last-minute rabbit out of his hat. Unknown to most analysts and investors, a team of investment advisers and lawyers was secretly huddled at the Ritz Carlton hotel in New York City negotiating a blockbuster of a deal that would help Viacom beat...
...myself without the oppressive thumb of convention," says Idol, who released a Macintosh floppy disk with his album Cyberpunk. Yet for years Idol was "trapped in recording studios with my band trying to get the music right -- playing, arranging, figuring it all out -- while the money clock ticked away." Then he found a technology that allowed him to create a "virtual studio" in his home. "I was excited. It was 'live' to the computer...
...This difference affects the way women approach work -- their peak childbearing years usually coincide with their make-or-break career years -- as well as the dating game. Instead of looking at men casually, with that insouciance so valued by the Letterman generation, panicky women for whom the biological clock is tolling evaluate each prospect for his potential as a father. This one-sided pressure to mate alters the social firmament. The very act of needing to be married and to have a child before it is too late may keep a woman from reaching her goal; a woman for whom...
...orchestra remains a proud exception to the age of clock-watching union stewards, pettifogging management and perils-of-Pauline finances. Players routinely take their parts home to practice, and they sometimes request extra rehearsal time in particularly difficult or unfamiliar works. Morale is buoyed by the support of the city, which treats the musicians as local celebrities; the death last November of longtime concertmaster Daniel Majeske occasioned editorial eulogies the likes of which would be rare elsewhere. Under executive director Thomas W. Morris, the orchestra sits atop an impressive $73 million endowment, operates in the black and is retiring...