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...Communists' postwar struggle with Chiang Kaishek, Deng joined in planning strategy for the Huai-Hai campaign, which drove Nationalist forces south of the Yangtze and helped push them off the mainland to their Taiwan redoubt. A lull in the fighting permitted him to travel briefly to Peking for the ceremony at Tiananmen Square celebrating the founding of the People's Republic on Oct. 1, 1949. Soon afterward, Deng was named political commissar of China's vast Southwest Military Administrative Region and was based in his high school city of Chongqing. For the next three years he directed the region...
...latest megatakeover offers broke a relative lull in the merger spree--a lull, that is, only by recent standards. Last year more than 3,380 mergers and buyouts worth $1 million or more were completed in the U.S., with a total value in excess of $144 billion. In the first half of 1986 there were 1,639 similar transactions, worth more than $81 billion. But then the pace slowed a bit. In the past three months only 714 deals took place, involving more than $21 billion. Now, however, the merger game definitely seems to be heating up again. Allied Stores...
...under severely limited rules of engagement. Morale fell to an all-time low, and many cops left for police departments in other cities. It was only a matter of time before the L.A.P.D. began to lose its grip on gangs. "Immediately after the dissolution of CRASH, there was a lull," says detective Chuck Zeglin, a gang specialist who has 18 years' experience in the L.A.P.D.'s detective-support division. "Then a lot of the more hard-core gangsters came to believe we were not going to be as proactive as before, and they went a little crazy...
Harvard could not maintain the offensive surge when it returned home, though, as Vermont downed the Crimson 1-0. Harvard managed two goals in the next three games and went 1-2 during the lull...
Some administrators and professors pointed to a lull in active efforts to identify eligible women faculty for tenure as the reason behind last year’s low numbers...