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...There are still a few hoops to jump through," says Jeffrey Logsdon, entertainment analyst for the Los Angeles-based Seidler Companies. "Malone is a big hoop. A role for Ted is a big hoop. But if it works, Time Warner will be such a large entity that it shrinks the universe of who can bother you. You eliminate three-quarters of the buyers who could attempt a takeover." Notable exception: General Electric...
...technology poses a serious threat to Blockbuster's future. "Why else would Huizenga practically give away the store?" asks Jessica Reif, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. "He's giving up hard, cold cash for stock, and he's accepting a smaller post in a much bigger company." Says Jeffrey Logsdon, who follows the company for Seidler Amdec: "This is an exit strategy for Huizenga. He gets to unload a declining business before it falls off the cliff...
After five months of brawling, it finally seems as though the end is in sight. While he stopped short of declaring outright victory for the home- shopping channel, "Diller will not lose any sleep over this new bid," says analyst Logsdon. If Diller does not alter his own bid (most observers believe he will not) and Viacom fails to sweeten its package by early next week, then it remains for Paramount's shareholders to vote with their shares of stock. Though QVC and its advisers radiated confidence at the end of last week, they were not above taking...
...away. Why does the U.S. need a space program anyway? Should the nation be risking lives and spending enormous amounts of money to keep sending humans into space, and if so, why? And should NASA, with its badly checkered history, be the agency in charge? Observes John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's Space Policy Institute: "We are in the process of making a transition from a program that was exciting and was related to some broad national interests at the time of the cold war, to something different. We don't know yet what that 'something different' will...
...Logsdon also faults NASA as an organization. "The agency seems to have ; lost some of its technical sharpness," he says. "It hasn't been adequately replenished with young people over the years" -- the result of budget cuts made in the 1970s. The current head of NASA, Daniel Goldin, aims to change this, says Logsdon, "but reconstructing a middle-aged, bureaucratic organization from within is difficult...