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...others will continue to operate as separate units, with Warner's old divisions reporting to Ross and Time's to Munro and Nicholas. Five years down the road, according to the merger agreement, the management will be unified, with Nicholas as the chief executive. "We're not going to crash these two companies together," said Nicholas. Both Time and Warner believe their greatest opportunities for cooperation and growth lie overseas. Ross, for example, hopes to use Warner's worldwide film-and-TV-distribution network to market HBO programming...
Attesting to that depth is the Black and White's third-place finish in the Head of the Charles Regatta this fall, the placing of four Radcliffe rowers among the top six collegiate rowers in the Crash-B Sprints (an erg competition in the winter), and the novice crews' first and third-place finishes in the Foot of the Charles Regatta in November--the first Harvard victory in the Foot in eight years...
...absolutes, such as the requirement that only the first news section and the cover story must open with at least five consecutive editorial pages. One of Quiggle's most delicate duties is to separate stories and ads on similar subjects. "You don't put a story about an air crash on the same page or the facing page with an airline ad," she explains...
Boeing's image has not been helped by the spate of mishaps involving its planes, even though the company has not been found responsible for any since the crash of a poorly repaired Japan Air Lines 747 in 1985. Experts give the company high marks for advising airlines of potential safety problems and ways to correct them. Says Paul Turk, vice president of Avmark Inc., a leading aviation consultant: "Boeing is taking a lot of hits because most of the older jets flying are Boeings. But the facts are that the industry, and Boeing specifically, is recognizing the problems...
Still, Fed watchers say Greenspan has the savvy to brake the economy without skidding it into a recession. Many credit the Fed with helping prevent a slump by easing credit after the 1987 stock crash. "Ever since the market meltdown, ; Greenspan has been walking on eggs," says Pierre Rinfret, a New York City- based economist. "He's making every move very cautiously...