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...executives, the rationale for corporate marriages is often simple. Says Edward Hennessy, chairman of Allied Corp.: "It is cheaper to buy than to start from scratch." Following that logic, Hennessy acquired Bendix for more than $1.3 billion in 1982 in what has turned out to be a profitable purchase. Now he is paying $5 billion for Signal, whose aerospace and engineering lines complement Allied's products...
...close their own windows. Director Andrew Douglas, having decided that these phenomena on their own aren’t scary enough, gets cheap, but sometimes effective, jolts by using booming sound effects, eerie music, and jump cuts. These get the heart racing, but at the expense of internal logic...
...Bitburg fiasco is a mess, but even messes have a logic. This incident is a compound of some of the worst tendencies of the Reagan presidency: a weakness for theater, a neglect of history and a narrowly conceived politics...
...keep our priorities straight. Revenge may make us feel better, but it is no deterrent to future acts of terrorism. It is precisely this tribal logic, which is so prevalent in Arab lands, that keeps feuds going for generations. Joseph Wechsler Chicago Assembly-Line Surgery...
...cannot avoid our responsibility to lift up the moral dimensions of the choices before our world and nation." They emphasized that they were speaking purely from a moral pulpit, "as pastors, not politicians." No sooner had they spoken, however, than many conservative American Catholics, among others, faulted their logic: the moral issue of the Bomb could not be dissociated from political processes; the bishops were at best naive, at worst disingenuous. One direct assault evidently deserved another...