Word: let
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...have done this if you had it to do over again? And my answer is yes. I can look every day into the mirror and say this was the right thing to do for the shareholders. If we run it, great. If somebody else runs it, just as great. Let the market test...
...fervent fans who jam the Bills' Rich Stadium have a credibility problem. A banner hanging over the railing recently pleaded: LET'S GET RIDICULOUS! And that, to the crowd's delight, is just what the Buffalo Bills are doing. Their surprising performance this year has backers dancing on the soggy Astroturf and even thinking about a faraway game in January called the Super Bowl. Not so long ago, the chances of championship rings appearing on Bills' fingers seemed about as likely as finding hammerhead sharks in Lake Erie. In 1985 Buffalo sulked in the National Football League basement with...
...pulling hair. Amid the routine toddler pandemonium, Helen is talking about the 21-month-old child on her lap. "All of us have a season," she says. "With Denise, we know we'll only have a season. But we make the most of what we have today. You just let the child blossom into your life. Let the joy come out." The doctors said Denise would die of AIDS by Christmas last year, but she has come out of a coma twice. "When they start to get sick, they may just want to lie down," Helen says...
Labor's young guard would prefer to go into opposition and let voters experience a right-wing religious government. But Peres and Rabin are not eager to relinquish power for the sake of ideology. For Peres the personal element is very strong: banishment to the opposition could prove fatal to his political career. For Shamir the price could be no less high. If he fulfills the promise he made to the ultra-Orthodox, he risks making enemies of America's 6 million Jews...
HENRY KRAVIS. With his reputation as the No. 1 leveraged-buyout specialist on the line, he was not about to let RJR Nabisco go private unless he consummated the deal. A founding partner in the buyout firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the Manhattan socialite, 44, countered Johnson's proposal by offering to pay as much as $21.6 billion for the Atlanta-based company. As RJR's new owner, Kravis, whose firm also controls Beatrice and Safeway Stores, would probably keep the food divisions and sell the tobacco business...