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Before that happened, there had been plenty of reason for spirits to falter. The News lost $12.6 million in 1981, and its owner, the Chicago-based Tribune Co., estimated that losses could more than double in succeeding years. Unwilling to battle that trend, the Tribune Co. put the paper up for sale last Dec. 18. After three fallow months, the company announced that Texas Wheeler-Dealer Joe L. Allbritton was "buyer of last resort." But when Allbritton demanded a wage rollback and a one-third slash in the $190 million payroll, union leaders balked, and the "last resort" disappeared. Everyone...
Turner knows he faces an uphill battle. He knows too that there are a lot of corporate buzzards circling overhead, hoping CNN will falter so they can pick its carcass clean. But Turner has built a unique career on being an optimist. And on being right...
...obvious goal HBS. That, for those who don't think that way, is Harvard Business School. There was, and is, only one hitch. He didn't get in, at least not immediately. "Hey, I'm intense I go for the gold, try to get to the top. And you falter I've faltered a number of ways. I wanted to get straight into HBS, that's "probably my biggest disappointment at Harvard...
...opening game the Crimson nine recovered from a 3-0 deficit to take the lead in the fifth inning, only to falter 6-4. Harvard made sure of the second game however by jumping off to a 6-0 lead in the first inning and holding on for a satisfying 16-7 victory, its first of the young season...
...basketball season leaves an ambiguous, sort of stale taste in your mouth--like the kind you get after cheering for a second-half Crimson rally against Penn and then swearing all the way home after the good guys falter and lose...