Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whichever bid ultimately succeeds, the RJR Nabisco buyout may be too big for one team to handle. Hoping to join forces, KKR and the company's managers met around the clock in Manhattan. A major dispute was resolved when RJR Nabisco chief executive Ross Johnson agreed to share control of the company with...
Faculty members who led the cry for reform are concerned that, after a few dismal seasons, Dallas football nuts may once again slip payoffs to players. "The bottom-line question," asks law-school acting dean Paul Rogers, "is, Can we control the boosters?" Certainly everyone wants the reforms to work. The booster-club president, Bill Hill, insists that "alumni understand the situation now. We're going to be a model of integrity." Gregg adds, "A school can't live without the alumni." Old grads are after him, wanting to lend a hand. "Support us, come to our games," he shoots...
This dissatisfaction may have been partly because no overriding national issues gave focus to the campaign and partly because campaigning on less substantive issues brought success in the polls. Yet the basic problem is that the candidates want to control the process as much as they can. They want to avoid specificity and candor. With very few press conferences, no real debates (in which candidates actually ask each other questions), and mostly highly structured appearances, the candidates try to insulate themselves from detailed, comprehensive discussions of the issues. That format is certainly to their advantage, but not to that...
...parties and campaigns to agree. An alternative would be for Congress to require participation as a condition for receiving public funds. Since the taxpayers have provided more than $90 million altogether for the Bush and Dukakis campaigns, they ought to have the right to take back more control of the campaign process from the candidates and their marketing managers...
...raiders, who numbered only about 60, struck before dawn on Thursday, landing aboard speedboats from a small freighter moored offshore. Armed with rocket launchers, mortars and automatic rifles, they quickly seized almost total control of the 370-acre coral atoll, firing at civilians who came out of their homes to investigate. Many of the island's most prominent buildings, including its gold-domed mosque, were severely scarred by hours of gunfire...