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...eleventh-biggest U.S. retailer. Led by Chairman Edward Finkelstein, a group of top officers offered $70 a share, or $3.58 billion, for Macy's stock that had been selling for about $50 a share. The Macy's executives were working last week with the Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs to line up virtually all that money. The high buyout price, apparently designed to repel rival offers and avoid a bidding war for the company, drove up the value of other retailing issues as investors speculated that a wave of buyouts was about to break over the department-store industry...
...author of scholarly books on the history of bribery and the Catholic Church's teaching on contraception, though this clearly counts less than the fact that he is an articulate critic of abortion. "This is the most self-conscious ideological selection process since the first Roosevelt Administration," contends Sheldon Goldman, a University of Massachusetts professor who has closely examined the Reagan nominations. Conservative supporters of the President do not deny it. Patrick McGuigan of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation claims that the only question should be: "Does this guy comport with the President's ideology? If he doesn...
...92nd Street Y was dubbed “The Harvard of Nursery Schools” by Victoria Goldman, author of the Manhattan Directory of Private Nursery Schools. “The admissions are just as difficult,” says the mother of super-preschoolers herself, and “the facilities are probably better than Harvard?...
...Says Alexander Kroll, president of the Young & Rubicam advertising agency: "It's the most unusual strategy for launching a flanker brand in history, and it may work." Some are sure it will. "They've backed into one of the most powerful strategic positions in the consumer marketplace," says Emanuel Goldman of Montgomery Securities in San Francisco. "After all, they can satisfy the die-hard Coke customers and the consumers who like the sweeter taste...
...said her party would support the reduction as long as it involved no new borrowing. Business leaders were pleased, with the stock market reacting modestly; the DAX index was up 0.42% at week's end. "It's a step in the right direction," says Dirk Schumacher, an economist at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt. "Corporate taxes had to come down, given that countries around us are much lower." But he added that there's no guarantee that companies will use their tax windfall to invest in Germany. Even if Schröder's measures get through the legislature - which...