Word: baxters
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EXPECTING. Meredith Baxter Birney, 36, star of the TV sitcom Family Ties, and David Birney, 42, star of the recent TV mini-series Master of the Game and of next season's Glitter: twins, their second and third children; in October; in Los Angeles. Taping of new Family Ties episodes has started, and in the grand tradition of I Love Lucy the show's story line will follow Birney's pregnancy all the way to the birth...
...computer buffs, this vast selection represents the fulfillment of the computer age's promise. Says Ernest Baxter, managing editor of Personal Software magazine: "Put the right kind of software into a computer, and it will do whatever you want it to. There may be limits on what you can do with the machines themselves, but there are no limits on what you can do with software...
...Getty. Last week, in a stunning reversal, it blocked the planned marriage of LTV and Republic Steel. Proposed in September, the deal would have created the second-largest steel company in America, behind U.S. Steel. Assistant Attorney General J. Paul McGrath, named two months ago to succeed William Baxter as the Justice Department's antitrust chief, said the merger would violate the Clayton Act, which bans excessive concentration in any industry...
...protection from imports that steelmakers have won greatly weakened their position with the Justice Department. Even former Antitrust Chief Baxter, now a law professor at Stanford, agreed. Said he last week: "The steel companies can't have it both ways. They can't have protectionism on the U.S. market and then expect to be judged on merger questions as if they operated in a free world market...
Dropping the case was one of the last official acts of Baxter, 54, who resigned his post the next day to resume his teaching position at Stanford. During nearly three years as head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, Baxter had dropped the Government's 13-year-old suit against IBM and generally made life easier for big companies with an urge to merge. Ironically, it was under Baxter, reluctant trustbuster at best, that the biggest breakup of all was achieved: that of American Telephone & Telegraph...