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...also said his re-entry was "not a campaign ploy" to grab headlines and that the flip-flop probably hurt his contest because about two-thirds of all votes are cast on the first day of polling, which was Tuesday...
...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 us with...
...game that doesn't use hands can't be a good sport. Hands are, after all, one of the things that make humans unique. So in the world according to Ro, long distance running isn't a good sport either. Or maybe it is--they use their hands to grab the water from the thousands that flock to see them...
...mixed about it," he says, echoingthe grab-bag of expert reactions to the plan...
Cable-TV operators are the robber barons of this end of the century, having built businesses by tuning in local broadcasters' signals, then sending all ^ those programs out along their wires. That's right: what they grab for free, they sell, in bulk, to you. A year ago, after fervid lobbying by the broadcast networks, Congress passed a law obliging the cable operators to start compensating the broadcasters -- or drop the networks from the cable menus...