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Finally, in February, Goldenson and Murphy met in the offices of ABC's lawyer Joseph Flom, a partner in the New York City law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, famous as takeover specialists. From that point onward, the deal moved rapidly. The two sides spent only ten days in face-to-face talks, although they confronted some sticky points. Says Goldenson: "It fell apart from time to time as we went along...
...politically active group, seem to exemplify the American work ethic and the ideological purity which conservative uphold as praiseworthy goals. Tolerance, a fundamental American concept, has been forgotten by a President who vows to thwart various Americans' attempts to secure their inalienable rights. President Reagan should wipe his slate clean and grant homosexuals what he promised the rest of American in 1980: A New Beginning...
...researching it. Barbecaes, races of everything from riverboats to hot-air balloons, beauty contests, and constant parties follow one another with dizzying speed and profusion. By the time the frazzled and usually drunken Derbygoer makes it to the Big Event itself (which comes, by the way, after a full slate of seven or eight races) he mostly feels a vague desire simply to get it over with, although he will be the first to deny it. As genuine and visceral as the excitement of the packed race is--in recent years the Derby has fielded more than 20 horses...
...traditional liberal-conservative split on the Cambridge City Council and School Committee between members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and independents may be threatened by a third slate this fall. Daniel Crane, a local lawyer and son of the kite Edward Crane, long-time Cambridge mayor, has said that he may run for the 9-member governing body under a moderate pro business...
...Cambridge Tab quoted Crane, a member of the Association for a Better Cambridge--a loosely defined moderate, pro-reform group as saying that if he does "get a slate together, the basic thing we will be most committed to will be the streamlining of operations at the council as well as instilling some more businesslike behavior at the council...we will want to make it less like a circus...