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...handful of Boston Globe executives and columnists also showed up. Mike Barnicle, the Globe's tough-talking, let's-get-into-the-fray metro columnist is among the group...
Local governments are trapped into a classical Prisoner's Dilemma. If all governments refrained from granting incentives, they would generally gain; but it behooves each local government to entice businesses, which then puts all the other local governments at a competitive disadvantage if they don't jump in the fray...
When the Clinton team members arrived in Washington they vowed they would avoid the interdepartmental warfare that marred the Carter Administration, in which most of them served. They have succeeded up to now, but the good manners are beginning to fray slightly. State Department officials believe their boss is slammed for things that should be blamed on the Pentagon or the National Security Council NSC. Christopher tells his aides not to finger-point, but last week one of them confided, "He has taken criticism for a number of things he didn't take the lead on. You know, he doesn...
...University's own police report of one particularly violent incident says three officers were spat on by a violent man who was bleeding from his mouth and claiming to have AIDS. The Gazette published the following: "A suspect was arrested at 75 Mount Auburn St. for participating in a fray and being a disorderly person...
...suitors, Paramount stock rose 7 3/8 a share, to close at 75 7/8 last week. Arbitragers, who purchase the stock of takeover targets in the hope that deals will be completed, welcomed the battle and became voracious buyers. Fee- hunting investment bankers scrambled to draw other bidders into the fray and grab some of the action. "Our phone has been ringing off the wall," says H. Wayne Huizenga, chairman of Blockbuster Entertainment, the nation's largest video-store operator. "Basically, the investment-banking firms not involved in this deal want to be part of it, so they're all calling...