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...control: Forget the Brady bill. Need a compromise? Just institute "don't ask, don't tell." It would save tons of bureaucracy and paperwork if we just assumed that everyone who wanted a gun already fulfilled our criteria for sanity. "Are you a deranged lunatic who needs this gun to kill your family? Oops, I shouldn't have asked that. And please don't tell...
...sidelines could not help drawing comparisons with the decade of frantic buy-' em-and-bust-'em-up struggles (like the $25 billion 1988 fight for RJR Nabisco) that burdened corporations with excessive debt, ignited newspaper headlines and enriched everyone from corporate raiders to takeover lawyers. "The only criteria were who won or lost and how the companies were split up," says Felix Rohatyn, a senior partner at investment banker Lazard Freres, Paramount's adviser. In that rapacious era, "we wouldn't look at a deal under $1 billion," says James Stewart, a former front-page editor of the Wall Street...
...criteria for the selection of the documents included the importance of the argument, the prominence of the people who prepared it and the effect of the written document on the particular issue, Bailyn said...
...basic University policy on South Africawas adopted well before [HRAAA] candidates startedto run for the Board of Overseers," Steiner says."There were a set of criteria that were appliedwhich either led to divestment or to Harvard'sretaining the stock...
...said one of the most important criteria inchoosing the annual show is finding a script thatcontinues to amuse the cast and crew...