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...Soliciting. The all-out campaign paid valuable dividends for the established management. On Capitol Hill, Senator William Saxbe of Ohio rose to praise Goodrich's efforts to fend off "the predatory advance of a conglomerate." The Akron Beacon Journal likened Northwest to a "brash hussy trying to persuade our favorite uncle to elope." Forbes, a business biweekly, ran a long article that was so favorable to Goodrich that the company bought full-page newspaper space to reprint...
...prophetic accuracy to much of today's corporate enterprise. There are dozens of legal ways in which companies can juggle their books to inflate profits. The most common objectives are to camouflage a poor earnings performance, to help lift the price of common stock, and to promote-or fend off-mergers. Many conglomerate corporations owe their recent ascendancy at least in part to such practices. The trend has spread confusion among security analysts and investors; it has fired acrimonious debate among businessmen and accountants; it has provoked concern among regulatory authorities...
...open to him in his early years) to finicky discoveries about the minutest details (e.g., that the Sergeant Pepper concept of a album as an integrated whole "can be traced back to the end of Between the Buttons"). And, remarkably, these multifarious insights are not stranded and left to fend for themselves in a mass of prose but, in Williams' writings, are usually integrated into a solid conceptual framework, of the kind which is absolutely essential to good rock writing...
...become a major Pan Am stockholder. Last month Wall Street rumors whispered that U.S. Steel, with its $5.6 billion assets, was on several lists of takeover targets. The company has revamped its bookkeeping, as have many other steel companies, to increase reported earnings in an obvious effort to fend...
...fortunate homeless animals are put to sleep. Millions are abandoned in town dumps and on lonely roads by people who actually believe that a domesticated animal can fend for itself. They freeze or slowly starve; many are hit by cars and left to die. There are no expensive tombstones for these animals...