Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: Prediction of the weekendgoes to Harvard's Mike Vukonich, who watched thegame from the Bright press box. After seeingWeisbrod take Bourbeau's stick, Vukonich predictedthat Weisbrod would score because he was usingBourbeau's stick. Thirty seconds later, Weisbrodscored...Harvard takes a break from ECAC actionnext weekend when it travels to Durham, N.H., toface the University of New Hampshire December10...The Crimson has scored at least onepower-play goal in every game this season
...correct artiste extraordinare who can rock out with the boys, jam with Black jazz musicians, do the classical thespian thing, father a host of love children and be just the eccentric country gentleman donating his time and energy to worthy causes. I mean, aren't we bohemian? Gimme a break...
...cameras love Baryshnikov, but the key to this book's success is Fraser's total sympathy with this complex artist. Fraser helped Baryshnikov break away from a Soviet tour group in 1974, and he seems to have won his complete trust. Usually reticent, Baryshnikov speaks with stinging intimacy of his mother's suicide when he was twelve, broods about women (he loves American women but has difficulty living under the same roof with one) and gripes about the toils of fund raising. He also talks -- without the least defensiveness -- about one of his several goals: to be a giant-screen...
Shareholders can lose out in LBOs even when they sell their stock for a profit. That is because stockholders usually receive far less than executives make when they break up a company and then put it back on the market. LBO critics argue that managers who fatten their wallets in this way are really profiting at the expense of other stockholders. So far, shareholders have brought eleven class-action suits against RJR Nabisco charging executives with acts ranging from "unfair self-dealing" to "not acting in the best interests of the stockholders...
House Speaker Jim Wright last week urged steps to slow the pace of buyouts, which he said were having a damaging "psychological and economic impact." Meanwhile, members of the Senate Finance Committee have been quietly pondering measures that would reduce the tax loopholes for interest payments and give a break to dividends. To cushion the Wall Street impact of such provisions, they might be included as part of a general tax bill that would seek to narrow the budget deficit...