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After 25 years in business in Harvard Square, I wrote Proposition 1-2-3 because it didn't seem fair to me that rich white couples can buy a house from me off Brattle Street, but a poor man can't buy his own apartment on Bristol Street. And a needy couple can't buy their apartment on Broadway...
...Rejected Alaska's attempt to stop offshore oil and gas exploration in Bristol Bay. The state had argued that an oil spill there could do more environmental harm than the massive Exxon Valdez spill last March...
...They concentrated on the densely populated East End and the Thames docks -- killing some 300 civilians and seriously injuring 1,300 -- and when it ended Goring telephoned his wife to say "London is in flames." Nor was London the only target. The Luftwaffe subsequently pounded Liverpool, Birmingham, Coventry, Bristol...
...friendly mergers back in vogue? Just three days after the Delaware Supreme Court gave Time Inc. and Warner Communications the go-ahead to join forces, another megamerger was announced. Bristol-Myers (1988 sales: $6 billion) and Squibb ($2.6 billion) said they had agreed to an $11.2 billion stock swap that would create the world's second largest drug company. The friendly merger would be the largest so far in the current race to create globe-spanning pharmaceutical giants. The new company, with headquarters in Manhattan, would bring together such products as Bristol-Myers' Bufferin painkiller and Windex glass cleaner with...
...Squibb and Bristol-Myers a consolidation seemed a natural. It would weld Squibb's skill at research and development with its partner's worldwide sales force. "There is pressure on health-care costs throughout the world. U.S. companies are merging to obtain efficiencies of scale," says David Lippman, who follows the industry for Drexel Burnham Lambert...