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The Pentagon crackdown comes just when the Reagan Administration is battling to push its enormous defense budget through an increasingly combative Congress. The White House has called for military spending to increase by 12.7% in fiscal 1986, to $277.5 billion. But critics, incensed by stories of $7,600 coffeemakers and...
That has not been the case. Davis, who bought out Rich, behaved like a mogul, buying a $20 million house in Beverly Hills and mixing with the stars. But he did not act like one. He showed little knack for movie management and took $538.6 million from Fox, part of...
NEW YORK -- Capital Cities Communications Inc announced an agreement yesterday to acquire the much larger American Broadcasting Cos Inc (ABC) for more than $3.5 billion in a deal that includes the participation of Warren Buffett, one of the nation's richest men.
Journalese is rich in mystic nouns: gentrification, quichification, greenmail, dealignment, watershed elections and apron strings (the political coattails of a female candidate). But students of the language agree that adjectives do most of the work, smuggling in actual information under the guise of normal journalism. Thus the use of soft...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission last week accused the brothers and seven cospeculators of illegally manipulating the silver market to drive up the price. The complaint charges that over a period of six months in 1979-80 the Hunts employed a global network of buyers to acquire more than 100...