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Allbritton will not have to put up a cent to acquire the News. What is more, he has 30 days to back out, without obligation, if he cannot reach "satisfactory" payroll-cutting agreements with the eleven unions at the News. Further, the Tribune Co. will have to cover potential tens...
Viewed in contrast to the Student Assembly's birth four year ago, both the plebiscite process and the outcome acquire an ironic aspect. In the spring of 1978, 85 percent of undergraduates voted in a referendum on the assembly, with 71 percent favoring it. But the Faculty refused to recognized...
Small wonder, then, that people will do almost everything for books, to acquire and preserve them, to prevent their banning or burning. Stories of manuscripts lost or destroyed are especially heartbreaking because one knows how ephemeral ideas and images are, what vast effort it takes to dust off the confusions...
The key decision for a statesman is whether to commit his nation or not. There is no middle course. Once a great nation commits itself, it must prevail. It will acquire no kudos for translating its inner doubts into hesitation. However ambivalently it has arrived at the point of decision...
Proponents of the leasing measure argue that the deals discourage mergers that might be made only to acquire tax credits. Says Martin Feldstein, president of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "Halting such mergers was actually an important rationale for...