Word: hunted
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...biggest box office smashes. Flush with profits from that film, Star Wars, Alien and other blockbusters, the studio has been pursued by a flock of acquisition-minded outsiders, most notably Chris-Craft Industries, which holds 22% of Fox's stock. But the winner in the Fox hunt may be a new entry: Denver Oilman Marvin Davis, who last week wheeled into Hollywood in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith II and made a cash offer of almost $800 million for the company. If the bid succeeds, Fox would become the first major studio since the days of Louis Mayer...
Other Harvard faculty members and administrators said that despite the probable reduction of support in several fields, "the process is less a witch hunt than old-fashioned politics...
...lowest, Governor Hugh Gallen wants to slice the state employment rolls by 10% in order to help erase the state's $25 million deficit. Michigan officials were forced to borrow $500 million last month to meet the state's bills, and North Carolina Governor James Hunt is proposing eliminating 1,000 state jobs...
...turns issues into slogans. TV concentrates almost exclusively on confrontations, statement and counterstatement, all reduced to brief segments of video tape. TV also demands filmable ritual: the waving placards and red-white-and-blue streamers of the quadrennial conventions, celebrated with the ceremonial jollity of an Easter egg hunt perpetuated for children who have grown into sullen adolescence. When TV has finally crowned its Muppety candidates, it reaches for their purses. Of the $60 million in federal funds that Reagan and Carter spent to campaign against each other, more than half went to television. Overall, candidates for federal office spent...
Others said the shared junior posts would reduce junior faculty commitment to the Social Studies program. Richard M. Hunt, the program's acting chairman, predicted junior members' "centers of gravity" might drift toward the department where tenure opportunities exist...