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Several University officials have confirmed that Harvard is nearly set to embark on its capital campaign ever--possibly as high as $2 billion...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Fund Drive Decision Expected By June | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...strong European markets. One week earlier Dow Chemical agreed to merge its Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals subsidiary with Marion Laboratories, whose chief prescription drug is Cardizem, an angina treatment. In the afterglow of the Time-Warner marriage and other such deals, companies in many industries may gain greater confidence to embark on friendly combinations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friendly Medicine | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

SPACE: America should embark on a mission to Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vol. 134 No. 4 JULY 24, 1989 | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...public service. Criticizing the curriculum for not encouraging more of the student body to work in the public sector, Bok wrote that in the face of a great need for first-rate public servants in our country, it was the school's responsibility to encourage its top students to embark on careers in government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mere Rhetoric? | 4/22/1989 | See Source »

...Eastern Airlines prepared to embark on a new flight plan last week, another major carrier flew into the combat zone. In Minnesota directors of NWA, the parent company of Northwest Airlines, broke a week-long silence by rejecting a $2.6 billion takeover bid from a group headed by Los Angeles investor Marvin Davis. In spurning the $90-a-share offer, NWA Chairman Steven Rothmeier, 42, said his firm fully intends to remain independent. But Davis, whose group owns 3% of NWA's shares, vowed to press ahead with plans to acquire the company and its prize asset, Northwest, the fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Will Be All-Out War | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

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