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The schematic eye that CBS uses as its television symbol seemed almost to blink and grow bleary last week. Since January the big broadcasting conglomerate (1984 sales: $4.9 billion) has been under attack from Fairness in Media, a conservative group endorsed by North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. It wants to...
Measles on campus is no coincidence, says CDC Epidemiologist John Frank. Most children under college age have been immunized against the disease, and most adults have a natural immunity because they were exposed in their childhood, when measles epidemics were common. But people born between 1957 and 1967, which includes...
Above all, he brought to it a renewed sense of design. Caravaggio's work moves from clutter toward the irreducible: tracing their signs for energy and pathos in the dark, his bodies acquire a formidable power of structure. Sometimes it is very clear; the figure of David holding up the...
Last week a federal grand jury indicted the flamboyant Democratic Governor on 50 counts of racketeering, wire fraud and mail fraud. U.S. Attorney John Volz charged that Edwards and six associates, including a brother, Marion, and a nephew, had conspired to create 15 health corporations and to illegally acquire state...
White Knight. A corporation that rides to the aid of another in a takeover fight. The knight rescues the embattled firm by agreeing to acquire it on better terms than the pursuer would provide. The improved provisions can include a higher purchase price for the company's stock, and assurances...