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...Eastern Airlines prepared to embark on a new flight plan last week, another major carrier flew into the combat zone. In Minnesota directors of NWA, the parent company of Northwest Airlines, broke a week-long silence by rejecting a $2.6 billion takeover bid from a group headed by Los Angeles investor Marvin Davis. In spurning the $90-a-share offer, NWA Chairman Steven Rothmeier, 42, said his firm fully intends to remain independent. But Davis, whose group owns 3% of NWA's shares, vowed to press ahead with plans to acquire the company and its prize asset, Northwest, the fourth...
With sweeping historical breadth, Karnow explores two countries caught in an obsessive parent-child relationship. National emotions swing between involvement and indifference, animosity and affection, pity and fear, longing and disgust. It is a tale of how the U.S. tried to re-create itself in the malleable Philippines, an accidental unit of 7,000 islands with little in common save Roman Catholicism and an ambiguous urge to be free. It is also the story of how the U.S., though it succeeded in imbuing the archipelago with aspects of its likeness, failed at imparting its democratic spirit. In In Our Image...
...becomes Rothson. You can imagine what people would have done with the two together." But could they come up with a workable union of surnames without resorting to hyphens? "It was important for our kid's last name to be the same as ours," says the lawyer. "Otherwise, one parent gets left out." The solution: Rothstein gave up his last name and took his wife's. Joel is now a Wolfson, just like his wife and their child...
...deal, subject to approval by Eastern creditors and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, followed lengthy negotiations with Eastern's parent Texas Air Corp...
Such spin-offs from the parent dictionary are, for the moment, purely speculative. Similarly, it will be at least 18 months before anyone can buy the OED2 in computer form. A laser-disc version of the first OED, however, with software less powerful than the newest Waterloo innovations, has been commercially available for the past year...