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...company is likely to be called. His cost: $517 million. He will sit on the board of the merged company, he said, but "won't be involved in the operations." To get the rest of ABC's purchase price, Capital Cities will sell some of its properties and borrow from banks...
...Holmes has been reviewing all his fights on tape cassettes; but more than on Earnie Shavers, Mike Weaver or Renaldo Snipes, his focus has gone to the machine itself. "When I started out, I didn't have any money for a machine to watch my fights. I tried to borrow from my promoter, but he said I didn't need a machine. By myself I ended up getting a secondhand...
...Cambridge residents void complaints against the Harvard force Police Chief Johnson told the Cambridge City Council last year and had reiterated this year that if anyone has bone to pick, his "door is always open. But Johnson may have to install swinging doors and borrow extra time to field the complaints in addition to his normal duties. An established review board would be much more practice than informal meetings with the Police Chief for addressing citizen concerns Powerful public agencies like the police need surefire checks and balances, now isolated protestations of concern...
PSYCHOLOGICAL HELPERS. These programs borrow a page from the personality quizzes found in magazines like Reader's Digest and Cosmopolitan. In a typical program, the computer offers a list of character traits that might apply to a client, customer or business colleague. The program records which traits fit the subject and then, after a suitable pause for reflection, prints out concrete advice on how best to manipulate that person into making a sale, negotiating a contract or agreeing to hand out a hefty salary increase. Business-psych programs like the Human Edge series (Sales Edge, Management Edge, Negotiation Edge...
Some powerful voices have called on Congress for budgetary speed. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker warned that so long as $200 billion deficits are not reduced, the U.S. economic expansion is "living on borrowed money and time." He made it clear to the Senate Banking Committee Wednesday that the Fed will not increase the nation's money supply rapidly enough to make it easy for the Government to borrow enough to cover the deficits. Quite the contrary, said Volcker, the board is already reining back on an expansion of the money supply it began last fall to pull the economy...