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...courtship lasted more than two years and survived a spectacular last- minute challenge from a jealous suitor. But last week the long-awaited corporate marriage finally took place. The result: Time Warner Inc., the world's largest information and entertainment company. The new giant, with 35,000 employees and $10 billion in revenues this year, will be a global contender in the fields of magazines, books, music, movies, TV programs and cable...
...most major defense firms, profits are down and payrolls are being slashed. Los Angeles-based Northrop, which lost $78 million in the second quarter, is cutting its work force by 3,000 workers, to 41,000. St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas (1988 defense sales: $9.7 billion), the largest U.S. military contractor, reported a loss of $48 million during the same period. If Cheney sells his plan to end production of the company's AH-64 Apache helicopter in 1991, as many as 4,000 McDonnell Douglas workers in Mesa, Ariz., and Culver City, Calif., could lose their jobs...
...state's credit rating is on par with Mississippi's. Spending is being slashed, and Dukakis just signed the largest tax hike in years into law. Suddenly, the great Massachusetts miracle doesn't seem so miraculous...
...wall project, you would be amazed, there were 120 different walls--no two were identical," says Shoaib N. Ahmad, a student in the architecture program, which is the largest of Career Discovery's three sections, attracting 80 percent of the students and nearly 75 percent of the instructors...
...during June rose 7%, to an annual rate of 1.4 million. Even so, some experts are cautious about predicting a housing boon because the rise was entirely attributable to an increase in multifamily houses and apartment buildings. There was no growth in single-family-home construction, which forms the largest part of the industry...