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...that Mesa pay $50 a share, or $1.8 billion, for 46% of Cities Service stock, plus $1.9 billion more in promissory notes and Mesa stock for the remaining 49% of Cities Service shares. The startled Waidelich, faced with the prospect of seeing his company disappear into a firm a fraction of its size, fought back the next day with a counteroffer. Cities Service proposed to buy Mesa for $17 a share, or $1 above the market price, for 51% of the company. At that point, Pickens decided to cancel his weekend golf game over in Fort Worth and packed...
Fewer weapons would mean fewer plans for using weapons, such as the one the Reagan Administration has recently produced for waging a multi-year nuclear campaign, as if the surviving fraction of each nation's population would care who finally "won." Deterrence would thus reemerge as the only reason to have whatever nuclear warheads exist, and deadly accidents would be made less likely...
...while Harvard's outgoing Student Assembly and incoming Undergraduate Council share a newness and a history of previous turbulence with other campus governments, the new government here will be several times the size of the others with only a fraction of their budgets. Yale, despite having a student body of approximately Harvard's size, has only 24 representatives on its College Council, compared to about 90 here where there is one representative per 75 students. Even at Cornell, with 12,000 undergrads, the Student Senate boasts just 30 elected representatives. During both constitutional conventions here...
...replenished) is nearly equal to the yearly flow of the Colorado River. Like all aquifers, the Ogallala depends on rain water for recharging, and only a trickle of the annual local rainfall ever reaches it. Gradually built up over millions of years, the aquifer is being drained in a fraction of that time. The question is no longer if the Ogallala will run dry, but when...
Your article "Now It's Cash-Strapped Rumania" [March 8] contained two errors. Contrary to your assertion, First Chicago International is not owed $100 million by Rumania. Our actual loan exposure is a fraction of this. In addition, First Chicago has not been associated with any group of international bankers that visited Bucharest "to talk things over...