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The decline of Ivy League basketball in relation to the top conferences has been self-inflicted, some coaches say. By refusing to award athletic scholarships or stipends and by holding extremely rigid academic standards, the Ivy League keeps itself out of the bidding for the top athletes in basketball.

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Ivy League Basketball: A Shooting Star | 4/27/1988 | See Source »

As sales level off, many contestants have concluded that the best way to thrive is to buy out some of the competition. For five weeks, Canadian Developer Robert Campeau engaged in a bidding battle with R.H. Macy for Federated Department Stores, a retail giant with 650 outlets, including such prestigious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Holds Barred: Retailers Battling for Profits | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

Griffin is trying to wrest Resorts International, the Atlantic City-based hotel and casino operator, from Trump. The developer, Resorts' chairman since last year, has been buying shares in the company and bidding for the rest. His aim is to merge it into his privately held Trump Organization. But on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Talk Shows to Takeovers | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

At the center of the conflict is the part of a computer that is most visible to the user: the words and pictures that appear on the screen and the commands by which the machine can be made to do one's bidding. Conventional computers, including the industry-standard IBM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imitation Or Infringement? | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

A particularly unsettling development has the sister cities of St. Pete and Tampa at each other's wryneck throats. Bucking nature and tradition, both have been bidding for full-time baseball, either an expansion team or a carpetbagger. Tampa has gone so far as to draw up blueprints for a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Place for Bright Starts | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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