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Today the Army reports 1.5 million adherents worldwide and about 16,800 active officers (the equivalent of clergy), down from nearly 18,000 in 1968. Europe has fared the worst, losing 33% of its officers in the past 15 years. In the U.S., the officer ranks, the largest of any country, have declined slightly, to 3,703. The U.S. operation has 29,000 other employees, and 1985 revenues were estimated at more than $500 million...
...South, which won and thus should have the choice, calls the conflict) came 125 years less one day after the original. The site was five miles from the actual battlefield, on 500 acres turned over for the occasion by a land developer. It was one of the largest re-enactments so far in the national craze for battle re-creations, which gathered momentum as a result of the Bicentennial celebrations ten years ago, and shows no sign of a cease-fire...
...generally friendly form of takeover, the leveraged buyout. In an LBO, a small group of investors buys a company's stock with mostly borrowed money and takes the corporation private. Last week Kohlberg Kravis and a group of outside investors announced that they would do an LBO of the largest U.S. supermarket chain, Safeway Stores, for about $4.3 billion in cash and securities. Safeway's management accepted the plan so that it could escape a takeover bid from Dart Group, a retail chain...
...scale of the Kohlberg Kravis buyouts is pushing the reticent company into the spotlight and raising skepticism about the ambitious reach of its deals. In April the firm wrapped up the largest LBO in history, the $6.2 billion purchase of Beatrice, the food and consumer-products conglomerate...
What is the country's largest newspaper? USA Today, and its publisher, Cathleen Black, claimed the title last week with full-page ads that tooted: SIMMONS SAYS WE'RE NO. 1. The ads referred to the latest survey by Simmons Market Research Bureau, which reported that the four-year-old Gannett daily has more readers than any other U.S. newspaper: 4.8 million, vs. 4 million for the Wall Street Journal, the former...