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...contrast, previous HUCTW negotiations have been quite drawnout and acrimonious...
Rather than stake their hopes on a potentially cumbersome and drawnout review in Washington, union organizers believe they can easily gain the right to a third election and then have a good chance to prevail...
Amexco initially seemed likely to win. But its managers appeared stunned by the fury of McGraw-Hill Chairman Harold McGraw Jr.'s attacks on Amexco's "corporate morality" and unwilling to take the chance that further such assaults would blacken its reputation during a drawnout struggle. At the start of the week, Amexco Chairman James D. Robinson III raised the company's bid for McGraw-Hill stock from $34 a share to $40, or a total of almost $1 billion in cash. But he promised not to make a tender offer to stockholders unless the majority...
...system would hold together long enough-perhaps another three years-to let reserves artificially created by the IMF begin to supplement gold's historic role. British devaluation and two subsequent runs on gold have drastically shrunk the transition time. "The monetary system is now in a continuous and drawnout crisis," says Roy L. Reierson, senior vice president and chief economist of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. Last week Reierson added his voice to those demanding that the London gold pool be closed, and that the U.S. limit its $35-an-oz. sales of bullion to the settlement...
...ineffectively through the story of a novelist. Aherne, finding himself and his worthless son, Louis Hayward, in love with the same painter, Carroll. That the picture suffers from the elimination of certain scenes of the book that might remove the fireless acting is unfortunate, but the result is a drawnout tale of unhappy lives and unhappy children. It is relieved only in the warm and heart-felt showing by Henry Hull and Laraine Day as father-and-daughter friends of the family sucked into the web of filial and matrimonial complications. Continuity of effect and depth of performance...