Word: ling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty vote would coerce the minority of the Faculty that disagreed. Anhony G. Octtinger, professor of Ling-uistics and Gordon McKay professor of Applied Mathematics said that "there is a moral issue I must weigh against the moral issue of the war. I can not live with coercion of fellow Faculty members...
...From their 1969 peaks, shipping stocks are off 46%, airlines and motion pictures 40%, aerospace 39%, sugar companies 38%. Losses are only slightly less among coal, copper, textile, oil and insurance shares. Most of the leading conglomerate corporations have dropped disastrously: Litton is off 43%, Gulf & Western 50% and Ling-Temco-Vought...
...have done anything wrong but because some day they might. A doctrine that would allow the Government to flail at big mergers also includes temptations for arbitrary action. Some businessmen, for example, have suggested that it is not entirely coincidence that one primary target of the trustbusters is James Ling, the conglomerate chief who, whatever his merits or demerits as a businessman, also happens to be a big Democratic fund raiser...
...mergers. He charges that his Democratic predecessors, by taking the position that mergers of companies in unrelated businesses were not subject to existing antitrust law, "let the merger movement get clear out of hand." In rapid succession, he has announced actions against three big conglomerates. His trustbusters are contesting Ling-Temco-Vought's takeover of Jones & Laughlin Steel; ITT's acquisition of Canteen Corp. and Northwest Industries' attempt to buy up B. F. Goodrich. Such mergers, McLaren says, are forcing "a radical restructuring" of the economy. The restructuring that he is talking about is not based...
John G. S. Flym, attorney for Bishop, Ling, and Prokosch, declined to comment on prospects for the trial...