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In the paneled corridors of Manhattan's brokerage firms and investment houses, the scandal was reverberating in an atmosphere that one eminent Wall Street lawyer described as "hysteria." At blue-chip law firms, telephones rang incessantly as worried players of the multibillion-dollar business- takeover game sought advice and protection...
In 1984, for example, Fort Worth's Sid Bass and his brothers bought and sold 9.9% of Texaco's shares for a swift profit of $300 million. Manhattan Financier Saul Steinberg earned $60 million that year by buying 11.1% of Walt Disney Productions and then reselling it to the company...
Think back to all you know of Ronald Reagan, and there is almost always some other person in the picture. Originally that person was you, the individual tree he addressed with startling success when he posed the question in the 1980 presidential debates, "Are you better off than you were...
The victim of Reynolds' diatribe was none other than eminent Supreme Court liberal, Associate Justice William Brennan. Brennan's opinions, Reynolds declared, demonstrate that the Justice seeks a "radical egalitarian" society.
PRE-EMINENT AMONG THE activities of a large coalition of groups that have worked to push Harvard toward divestment from companies that do business in South Africa is the effort of local labor groups--specifically Local 26 of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers, which represents Harvard Dining Service workers. While...