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...shows: Roseanne, The Cosby Show and A Different World. Despite a misfire last fall with Chicken Soup, the duo are as hot as TV producers get. CBS even talked to them in December about taking over the network's programming division. (The negotiations fell through.) Perhaps because of their clout, Grand has been given a near indestructible time period: the half-hour following Cheers on NBC's powerful Thursday-night schedule. That means Grand is probably in for the long haul -- good, bad or indifferent...
Nowhere is its enduring clout more evident than in Congress, where the group is preparing for another round in its fight against the Brady bill. (The proposal takes its unofficial name from James Brady and his wife Sarah, who became a gun-control activist after her husband was shot.) When the measure first went before the House in 1988, it lost by a vote of 228 to 182. This year few expect it to pass the House or even to emerge from committee in the Senate. Prospects are not much better for Senate passage of a bill to ban assault...
...Armed chiefly with bravado and borrowed cash, such buccaneers as T. Boone Pickens, Paul Bilzerian and Canada's Robert Campeau once made boardrooms tremble and the stock market dance. No longer. More jeered than feared, many raiders are mired in debt, saddled with bankrupt companies or deprived of their clout. Others who profited from the buyout binge face public obloquy or even years in jail...
Takeover artists once made U.S. industry tremble, but now it is their turn to shake. Many are saddled with debt-ridden companies or have little of their old clout left. The collapse of B. Altman...
...staff's argument for the national-affiliation rule is tenuous at best. It contends that the University will lack clout in dealing with nationally-affiliated student groups. But what kind of influence does Harvard need over these organizations...