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...Tisch, the Loews chairman who had never fired an employee before taking over CBS in 1986, is portrayed as a Wall Street trader with no strategic vision and few management skills. Tom Murphy, who engineered Capital Cities Communications' 1985 acquisition of ABC, is the hero of this tale by default. Though Cap Cities' no-frills style caused a rude culture shock at ABC, eventually Murphy proved to be the most humane and broadcast- ) savvy of the new network owners...
...farms has wrecked the local tax base. "We're drifting back to dry-land desert," says farmer Orville Tomky, who has farmed in the county for 40 years. "Everything is slowly drying up. The cities have bought nearly all the water in the county. Maybe we'll just default and be taken over by the state...
...could wait--sit in his impregnable underground German-engineered fortress and wait while the Americans trotted out images of the Vietnam quagmire and became increasingly disillusioned as the bodybags came home. Many said he could do just what Ho Chi Minh had done--wait for a win by default as the American people grew disgusted with the Gulf War. A ground war simply could not be the right answer...
...year and a half ago, The New York Times Magazine claimed that law was becoming the standard default profession for intelligent, non-science oriented Americans unable to decide upon their occupations after finishing college. This campus provides no evidence to the contrary. Look around and count. If your friends include upperclass students not concentrating in natural sciences, they probably include many on the law school track...
Adrian Ezra: All-Ivy and Rookie of the Year...The freshman immediately monopolized the fifth seed position to post an undefeated record in regular season dual matches...His only tournament "defeat" of the season came when a separated shoulder and fractured nose forced him to default in the semi-final round of the USSRA championships...