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...people back," he says, "but they can at least give back to my mother, in her 80s, her wealth, her history and her standing." Singer asked his boss at the World Jewish Congress in New York for permission to begin an investigation of the Swiss accounts and got the go-ahead...
...most artful goal of the night belonged to Northeastern's Stephanie Acres. The freshman, who assissted on the go-ahead score, avoided a check by sophomore Jen Gerometta and netted a beautiful wrap-around goal with under five minutes to play in the first period that gave the Huskies a 3-1 lead heading into the first intermission...
...spring with competitor Rite Aid, but the Federal Trade Commission blocked the acquisition over antitrust concerns. The FTC has not yet approved the CVS-Revco deal, but antitrust worries have already arisen over the 275 stores that the chains run in overlapping markets. If the deal receives an official go-ahead, the resulting drug store chain will use the CVS name and have about 4,000 stores in 24 states and the District of Columbia. Annual revenue are projected to reach $14 billion, making CVS the second-largest chain in the country in sales. -- Elizabeth Owen
...well. She saw that the Post needed to be improved editorially and hired the right man, Ben Bradlee, to do it. (The meeting in which she put out the first feelers to him was the first time she had ever taken a man to lunch.) She gave the crucial go-ahead to publish the Pentagon Papers, after a federal judge had halted publication of them in the New York Times. And, of course, she stood tall during the paper's groundbreaking Watergate coverage, backing her reporters in the face of enormous pressure from the Nixon Administration, which included politically motivated...
...moves. She saw that the Post needed to be improved editorially and hired the right man, Ben Bradlee, to do it. (The meeting in which she put out the first feelers to him was the first time she had ever taken a man to lunch.) She gave the crucial go-ahead to publish the Pentagon Papers, after a federal judge had halted publication of them in the New York Times. And, of course, she stood tall during the paper?s groundbreaking Watergate coverage, backing her reporters in the face of enormous pressure from the Nixon Administration, which included politically motivated...