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To acquire a Ph.D. one must complete both undergraduate and graduate school, and until recently this has not been a realistic possibility for many minorities. It was not until the 1960s that universities began to accept significant numbers of minorities, and until even later that affirmative action and other programs...
He also fails to realize that, like a tap on a telephone line, there are legal limits on how much access the government can have to electronic communications. I refer Mr. Liu to the Fourth Amendment, along with the past quarter century of Supreme Court decisions on search and seizure...
The post-cold war consolidation of the U.S. defense industry intensified with a bidding war to purchase the ailing Grumman Corp., one of the most venerable names in military aviation. Martin Marietta's announcement of a $1.9 billion deal to acquire Grumman was followed by a $2 billion offer from...
Times change. In a stunning reversal last week, MCI announced a deal to acquire 17% of the same venture, Nextel Communications, for a whopping $1.3 billion. "Things were different then," says MCI chairman Bert Roberts Jr. "MCI faces an entirely new world today."
The Croats' willingness to bargain reflects a crucial change of tactics by Franjo Tudjman, Croatia's strongman, a consummate opportunist who has previously shifted his allegiances from the Bosnians to the Serbs and back again as he maneuvers to preserve and acquire a greater Croation state. His continued meddling in...