Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cudjoe said Afro-American literature is not "protest literature;" it attempts to assimilate and express the experience of oppression...
...only possible for each individual to express his point of view. No country can impose its views on another. But we believe in what Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai said repeatedly: that from the point of view of global strategy and international politics, even where there was no normalization between China and the U.S., what we are faced with is stark reality. Reality cannot be changed by any person's subjective views...
...they are squaring off again in an especially vitriolic takeover fight. While American Express Co. was secretly plotting its $880 million bid for McGraw-Hill, it quickly hired Joe Flom, 55, in part so that McGraw-Hill could not get him first. McGraw-Hill countered by hiring Lipton, 47. Says an investment banker who has worked with both: "On offense, Flom is a tiger. He pretends there isn't any law and acts accordingly. On defense, Lipton comes up with innovative, ground-breaking lawsuits...
Last week Flom showed some of the qualities that have made him the undisputed "King of the Takeovers." In a bold move, American Express sued McGraw-Hill for libel and "publicly disseminating false and misleading statements designed to induce McGraw-Hill shareholders to reject American Express's tender offer." Attackers do not expect to be loved, but they rarely sue for libel. The 22-page complaint was aimed at silencing Harold McGraw, the publishing company's chief, who earlier in the week took out ads harshly attacking American Express, its chairman, James Robinson, and its president, Roger Morley...
...that he was now guilty of "an unprecedented breach of trust." McGraw thundered that Morley, by continuing to sit on the McGraw-Hill board until the bid was made, "clearly violated his fiduciary duties to McGraw-Hill and the stockholders ... by misappropriating confidential information and conspiring with American Express" to acquire McGraw-Hill on the cheap. McGraw wound up with a threat to sue Morley, Amexco and each Amexco director. The next day McGraw and Lipton filed suit asking for $500 million in damages should Amexco be successful...