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...Paramount consolidation might have. "The Time-Warner combination left everybody's powder dry to be able to go out and make acquisitions," says Larry Gerbrandt, a vice president of Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based communications-industry analyst. "But in a tender offer like Paramount's, you have to load up with a tremendous amount of debt that limits your options. The strategy can work, but it's much riskier...
...game, however, with extraordinary stakes. The Time-Warner deal had gathered support among many U.S. business leaders because it suggested a healthy way for companies to grow and expand without incurring a backbreaking load of debt. But the frenzy that surrounded the Paramount proposal last week seemed more closely linked to the merger mania of the roaring '80s than to hopes of restoring U.S. competitiveness in the 1990s. At the very least, the managers and employees of Time, Warner and Paramount stand to be distracted for months by the takeover struggle. And while a clash of the titans...
Despite her demanding academic load, Alexiades has found time for a wide variety of extracurricular activities, including being a phone counselor for RESPONSE and serving as a tutor supervisor for the Bureau of Study Counsel...
Johnson said she would continue to teach her popular Literature and Arts A-50 course, "Black Women Writers," and would also lead a seminar on Afro-American literature. She said the rest of her teaching load is unplanned, as she will be away from the University next year...
...rail transport compete for canal business, particularly consumer goods that are moved in containers. Still, the canal remains competitive in the movement of bulk cargoes, such as wheat and coal. Last year traffic through the canal reached almost 156.5 million tons of cargo, the second highest load in canal history. The U.S., the canal's largest user, sends 13.7% of its international seabound trade through the canal. Japan, the second largest user, relies heavily on the canal for food imports. A shipment of grain from the U.S., for instance, would take about 20 days longer...