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Turner has put forth a novel, no-cash financing plan. His Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting System will offer a complex package of several types of stocks, bonds and other securities worth $5.4 billion in exchange for all 31 million CBS common shares. The deal could take more than a year to complete, even if it comes offsmoothly, which is unlikely. Despite Turner's reputation for accomplishing the near impossible with such ventures as Cable News Network and SuperStation WTBS, the proposal represents an almost incredible reach. Wall Street financiers are skeptical that Turner Broadcasting, which had 1984 revenues...
...power of opium in a culture in which at least one Chamber of Commerce used the drug as the official standard of exchange. To his appetite for low company Seagrave adds an urbane taste for incongruity, a penchant for Edwardian epigrams ("There is a time for fools to come forth, when only bandits can be kings") and a gift for painterly description: Taiwan is a realm of "cliff-lined seascapes and misty peaks that unrolled each dawn from the scroll of night...
Coke's decision brought forth a joyous response from soft-drink fans across the U.S. Said Karen Wilson, 28, who last June led a rally to protest the new Coke in San Francisco's Union Square: "At first I was numb. Then I was shocked. Then I started to yell and scream and run up and down." Archrival Pepsi professed to be just as delighted. Crowed Roger Enrico, president of Pepsi-Cola USA, about new Coke: "Clearly this is the Edsel of the '80s. This was a terrible mistake. Coke's got a lemon on its hands, and now they...
...usually with better sound than comes from the tinny tiny speaker of a typical TV. Videos are at home on television, but they, like film, depend on editing to duplicate and convey the raw power of the music. About all a television director can do is cut back and forth between cameras. The medium does not catch the excitement of a performance, it just secondhands it along...
...actual fighting. Science has thus served as an equalizer between leaders and troops: "The young people who go around yelling 'Get rid of the Bomb!' ought to be careful, 'cause the politicians might put a bow and arrow in their hands and make the kids sally forth again, knowing that nothing is going to happen to them [the politicians]. With the development of nuclear weapons, the guy who says 'Go fight a war' is talking to himself...