Word: journals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still another tactic involves creating new shares, thereby diluting the voting power of current stock. When those new shares are distributed to shareholders of record, the effect is to strengthen their control greatly. Directors of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, approved such a plan two weeks ago. While the company faces no immediate takeover threat, the new stock virtually guarantees that the heirs of Clarence W Barron, who bought the company in 1902, will continue to control...
...such reactions are what Jerry Grey, publisher of the influential journal Aerospace America, whimsically calls the telephone syndrome. As he explains, "No one needed the telephone either, until they had one and discovered how much easier it made their lives." -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Washington
...acquainted with the night, she refused to turn her back on the consolations of nature, learning and love. The proof resides in Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex, a group of stories, fables, essays and reminiscences that she kept in a private journal. Though some of these works were previously published in her native Dutch, they are making their first appearances in hard cover, sympathetically translated by Ralph Manheim and Michel...
Back in December 1980, Military Review, a journal of the U.S. Army, carried a cover story titled "The New Mental Battlefield." In his quirky essay, Lieut. Colonel John B. Alexander wrote that "there are weapons systems that operate on the power of the mind and whose lethal capacity has already been demonstrated." He equated the first strategic breakthrough in defense E.S.P. with sole possession of nuclear weapons and urged the U.S. to step up its research in the field...
...successful pregnancy, reported in the British journal Nature by a team of researchers led by Dr. Carl Wood at Melbourne's Monash University, owes much to the experience of cattle and sheep breeders. They have long transferred embryos from prize animals to poorer stock in efforts to upgrade their herds. The human egg in the Australian experiment came from a 29-year-old woman who was trying to conceive. Although her ovaries were healthy, the fallopian tubes connecting the ovaries with the uterus were blocked...