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...times, task-force work bordered on the absurd. On March 16 he recalled that amid the frantic pace, Magaziner sent a memo to group leaders noting that 5,000 letters were arriving daily. "We need your help," Magaziner wrote. "Our goal is to answer this mail before our May deadline." On April 2, 1993, after being asked for details of savings from various price-control proposals, Ukockis participated in another silly session. "We sat around the table making guesstimates of the savings to be realized. It was an appropriate exercise for April Fools...
...USAir Boeing 737, en route from Chicago to Palm Beach, Florida, via Pittsburgh, went into a fatal nose dive just a few minutes before landing at the Pittsburgh airport. All 132 people aboard perished in the crash, the reasons for which were not clear. The crew's frantic last words -- "Oh God Traffic emergency!" -- indicated trouble but were not specific. Investigators are hoping that flight data from the plane's black box will provide further clues...
...wasn't getting anywhere," she recalls. "Everybody kept saying, 'Don't worry. Don't worry."' It was bad advice. When the infant was 12 days old, his parents rushed him to Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. His breathing was shallow; his eyes had rolled back. "I was frantic because I could see he was withering," she recalls. Doctors found the child's weight had slipped below 5 lbs. Their diagnosis: severe dehydration. Bradley was starving. A few days later, he suffered a stroke. Just how much damage it caused remains to be seen...
...pace of takeovers today already rivals the most frantic years of the '80s. So far in 1994, companies have announced deals worth $171.6 billion, nearly 50% more than those of a year ago. At that rate, 1994 would trail only 1989 as the most merger-filled period on record. "The deals have just begun," declares Martin Sikora, editor of the trade journal Mergers & Acquisitions. "The story of entire industries is being rewritten...
...works. With the Senate opening debate this week and the House set to follow on Aug. 15, the original Clinton plan is no longer on the table and the frantic Democratic leadership in both houses is without an alternative that has enough votes so far to pass. Having got the President's enthusiastic endorsement during his press conference last week, Mitchell's proposal now represents the only game in town for Senate Democrats -- and one they have just begun to play...