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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demise of Fruehauf dramatizes the problems that could befall a growing number of leveraged buyouts as the U.S. economy softens. Touted as one of the hottest financial plays of the go-go 1980s, LBOs zoomed in annual volume from about $250 million in 1980 to nearly $45 billion last year. The buyouts included household names like R.H. Macy, Beatrice, TWA and Safeway Stores. In such deals an investor group, often headed by a company's own executives, uses bank loans and high-interest junk bonds to buy a firm and take it private. Almost without exception, the group immediately slashes...
...when the disease is far advanced. People who take AZT to stall the onset of AIDS may not be covered. Burroughs Wellcome Co., which manufactures AZT, is now seeking FDA clearance to use the medication in pre-AIDS patients. If the Federal Government permits the number of consumers to go up, presumably the price will come down...
...politicians had their own Academy Awards, the statuette for cliff-hanger scenarios would certainly go to Poland. Last week the Sejm, the governing lower house of Parliament, tackled the task of electing a Prime Minister to head the new government. President Wojciech Jaruzelski chose Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak for the post. But Kiszczak ran into such fierce resistance from both the Solidarity opposition and some legislators allied with the Communists that frantic politicking continued right down to the wire. Communist leaders pressured their rebellious allies within the United Peasant Alliance, offering important positions and threatening to retract privileges. The tactics...
Some of the exchanges' critics want to go further. They recommend that Chicago's quaint system of making deals with shouts and hand signals be replaced with automated computerized trading, as has been done in Tokyo and London. "It is time to jettison this Rube Goldberg . . . system and replace it with a sophisticated electronic system that records trades as they happen," said Massachusetts Democrat Edward J. Markey, chairman of the House subcommittee on telecommunications and finance...
...such revisionism a dramatic development. With establishment journals publishing criticism of Lenin, says Dimitri Simes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, "nothing about Communism is sacred any longer in the Soviet Union." Robert Legvold, director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute, does not expect Lenin to go from icon to archvillain. "Lenin will be given an honorary place in Soviet history as the founder of the country," says he. "Yet, just as U.S. historians can show the warts of George Washington, Soviet historians will be able to do the same with Lenin...