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...industry could exceed $300 billion over 30 years, with taxpayers picking up two-thirds of the bill. The FHLBB reported last week that the 2,938 Government-insured thrifts in the U.S. posted losses of $3.4 billion during the first quarter of the year. Observes Alex Sheshunoff, an industry analyst: "There's a lot more bad news to come." In the S & L industry, unfortunately, the most pessimistic forecasts usually turn out to be the most accurate ones...
Furthermore, soldiers on trucks careened through the diplomatic quarter, shouting "Go home! Go home!" Yet others sprayed bullets into the walls and windows of Jianguomenwai, a compound occupied by foreigners. One diplomatic analyst is convinced that under the cover of random gunfire, military snipers were deliberately shooting up apartments inhabited by diplomats who had the previous night disrupted what appeared to be preparations for a surreptitious execution of young Chinese men. "What they did in the foreign compound," said this intelligence expert, "was to attempt to drive out every foreign eye so they can go about their executions." Western photographers...
...such a bizarre triangle. "You can't help worrying now about what kind of company this will produce. No one knows where this sort of runaway sled ends up," said Richard Christian, associate dean at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Declared a Los Angeles-based securities analyst: "This is going to be the greatest battle that Hollywood has ever seen...
...ventures. Time's cable-television systems would provide distribution vehicles for that product. Warner, meanwhile, has film, cable-TV and publishing units and differs from Paramount in owning the largest domestic record company. "Time would make a good fit with either Warner or Paramount," says Peter Appert, a media analyst for the investment firm of C.J. Lawrence, Morgan Grenfell...
...would have given the merged company far more flexibility than a Time-Paramount consolidation might have. "The Time-Warner combination left everybody's powder dry to be able to go out and make acquisitions," says Larry Gerbrandt, a vice president of Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based communications-industry analyst. "But in a tender offer like Paramount's, you have to load up with a tremendous amount of debt that limits your options. The strategy can work, but it's much riskier...