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...hype and expectations fell stunningly short of what actually happened when the bidding finally began last Tuesday night. Ticket holders who had braved a gauntlet of security guards, bag searches, metal detectors and TV reporters to reach the auction room quickly realized they had boarded an elevator going nowhere...
...DECISION CAME SWIFTLY AND with little drama. CBS shareholders, in a meeting last Thursday at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, voted overwhelmingly to approve a $5.4 billion buyout offer from the Westinghouse Electric Corp. Before the vote, however, chairman Laurence Tisch had to face the usual gauntlet of indignities. One disgruntled stockholder rose to celebrate "being liberated from the Tisch regime." Another castigated the chief executive's record and said he had "presided over the destruction of CBS as a cultural and educational leader." (Tisch defended his decision to sell off the record and publishing divisions...
...standing in the wrong place when the sprinklers turn on, you're likely to find a stream of water aimed right at your crotch. And even if you're lucky enough to come upon the sprinklers after they're already on, you may still have to run a gauntlet to get where you're going. You'd think that the Administration would realize that there is no point to watering the asphalt...
...behind 10 Downing Street and announced to a hastily assembled press conference that enough was enough. He had become weary, he declared, of "a small minority" that was disrupting his Conservative Party and undermining his position. With the bright summer sunshine streaming over his shoulder, Major threw down the gauntlet. Rather than wait until November for a possible challenge to his leadership--and endure months of politically damaging backbiting in between--he was resigning as head of the Tories and calling an immediate leadership election so that he could seek a renewed mandate. The time had come, he said...
...next seven years in a bid to fulfill the GOP promise to balance the budget by 2002. Roughly a third of those proposed cuts are expected to come from projected Medicare spending. Ratan says that both parties believe such cuts are necessary, and now Domenici is throwing down the gauntlet...