Word: edward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Evolutionary Epic as Religious Myth-- Edward O. Wilson, Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of science, 3 Church...
...Edward L. Keenan '50, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and chairman of the committee, said the Faculty charged the committee two years ago to investigate the possibilities of women's studies, defining the subject and examine ways to introduce women's studies into the curriculum...
Though the offer would come to $35 a share for stock that had been selling in the $23 to $26 range, Woolworth angrily rejected it. Chairman Edward Gibbons called the bid "grossly inadequate" and said that it raised "moral and ethical questions of the most serious nature." Woolworth has brushed up its stodgy image by posting record sales of $6.1 billion and earnings of $130 million in the last fiscal year, and it is roughly four times larger than Brascan. To help finance the takeover, Brascan would have to borrow $700 million from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, which...
...Cash-rich firms like Brascan are commonly candidates for acquisition by some larger company that after taking over uses all that cash to finance the deal. Almost the same moment that Brascan revealed its bid for Woolwjrth, Canada's Edper Equities, an investment company that is controlled by Edward and Peter Bronfman, cousins of the Seagram whisky chiefs, said that it wanted to increase its stake in Brascan from 5% to 50%. But then Brascan announced its new adventure, and an Edper spokesman said that his company's offer would be put off "until the Woolworth deal falls...
...week's end White and Senator Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.) announced a citizens' fund-raising drive to "save our Stuarts," and the two museums agreed to postpone the sale until 1980. Meanwhile the local newspapers could not resist some word slinging of their own. "Free George and Martha!" demanded the Washington Post. Sniffed the Boston Globe: "The proposed deal is akin to, say, selling Faneuil Hall to the state of Arizona as a tourist attraction." The New York Times offered its own cheeky compromise: since New York City is equidistant from the feuding cities, why not let George...