Word: final
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Time Warner came into existence last Monday after three Delaware Supreme Court judges delivered the final verdict in a seven-week battle that had riveted the attention of corporate America. Justice Henry Horsey matter-of- factly declared that the court had found "no error" in a July 14 lower- court ruling in which Chancellor William Allen denied a motion by Paramount Communications to block the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. Said Horsey: "We therefore affirm the decision...
...Sawyer remained with Nixon for nearly four more years in San Clemente, helping Frank Gannon (whom she was dating) gather material for the President's autobiography. "I had the illusion of indispensability," she explains. Her job was to assemble all the on-the-record material about Watergate and the Final Days -- an assignment that led to some tense moments with the former President. But she does not regret the experience (she and Nixon still correspond regularly): "I knew that being out there with him was going to be a seminar the likes of which one could never attend...
...bribery and influence-peddling scandal that forced the resignation of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita last April. The L.D.P. further alienated voters, especially women, by imposing a controversial 3% consumption tax. In agreeing to liberalize agricultural imports, the party angered farmers, long the chief pillar of its support. The final straw came just weeks after Uno was named Prime Minister, when his supposedly spotless reputation was soiled by revelations of a paid affair with a geisha. "Along the way," says Katsuhiko Shirakawa, an L.D.P. legislator, "we lost sight of what the public was demanding...
Asked about reports that Bush had decided to take military action if Cicippio were killed, Fitzwater said no final decision has been made...
...joining the Communist Party in a coalition government. But first he must get his own allies in line. Without a rival candidate, Jaruzelski required only a simple majority to be elected, a sure thing if all 299 Deputies belonging to the Communist coalition threw their weight behind him. The final count showed that eleven Communist alliance Deputies had broken ranks and that the general owed his election to maneuvering by a handful of Solidarity deputies...