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Meanwhile, a new craze seems to have afflicted several members of the team: dunking mania. After a long dunk drought, forwards Neil Phillips and Kyle Dodson each 'threw one down' during last Saturday's romp over Brandeis...
...Ungeheuer, meanwhile, interviewed investment bankers, corporate chairmen and academic specialists. He also attended a symposium at Columbia University Law School on the ramifications of takeovers. Ungeheuer uses a different simile to describe the latest corporate craze: "During the 1960s, when I was a correspondent covering Africa, there were so many coups d'etat that it became tempting to ignore them. That's impossible to do with mergers: while the afflicted African countries seemed to get smaller and smaller, the mergers keep getting bigger and bigger...
...corporate merger craze has taken some strange turns. Thwarted in a headline-making, five-month bid to take over CBS for $5.4 billion, Cable King Ted Turner consoled himself by buying a Hollywood studio instead. He paid $1.5 billion for MGM/UA Entertainment, whose library of 2,200 films includes such classics as Gone With the Wind and Singin' in the Rain...
...consolidation craze has created opportunities for sudden Croesus-style riches. For aiding Pantry Pride in its fight for Revlon, financial advisers and lawyers stand to gain more than $100 million. The winners include Drexel Burnham, which sold the junk bonds to finance the deal and is earning an estimated $60 million...
...went into a Beatle craze after he died," she recalled, adding that "the junior high school band I was in decided to play a lot of Beatle songs." At their final concert of the year, Bertozzi said, the lead singer of her group cried as he sang Lennon's "Imagine...