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The latest U.S. Steel-Mobil skirmishing was a perhaps fitting climax for a year of Brobdingnagian company mergers, and it also brought out increasing protests about corporate takeovers. Mobil is now viewed by many in the financial community as a reckless predator that is willing to spend extravagant sums and...
Marathon's executives and their advisers were confident last week that they could defeat Mobil's latest threat. If the oil company starts buying U.S. Steel stock, the price of it is likely to shoot upward, which would make the deal less attractive. And under a federal law...
It was the impotence of the domestic policy group that enabled Stockman to acquire enormous influence over all domestic decisions?and to keep his job. Stockman's publicly expressed skepticism in the Atlantic Monthly about the economic program he had done so much to shape and sell to Congress would...
Singelhandedly, they ward off missiles, but the cities they defend are only electronic blurs, and the missiles, figments of automated delirium tremens that cannot lose. Even Quix, the most artistic, to abuse an adjective, of video games conceals a destructive end. The player filling in the screen with colored boxes...
PLAY, AMERICAN STYLE, refers less and less to a crack of a bat or even a hearty game of shuffleboard. If play provokes our spiritual development and teaches us better table manners, then we now learn the morality of snap decisions and reflexes. Painlessly, we can acquire the ethics of...