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...Rose L. Mahoney Buffalo...
Neither current law nor current custom supports such an array of rights, however. On the contrary, a pregnant woman's right of decision is generally considered paramount, at least during the first three months. Even so, says Professor Maurice Mahoney of Yale's medical school, every embryo deserves a certain respect. "I see it as an individual human being," he says, "not with the same claims and rights as a newborn baby, but at least as an individual who calls upon me for some kind of protectiveness...
...planes. To help make her plan work, Blum enlisted the aid of her friend Jay Weinberg, 66, a former cancer patient and owner of an Avis car-rental franchise. Unfortunately, corporate sponsors were initially slow to sign up. The turning point came in January 1983, when David Mahoney, chairman of Norton Simon, was forced to cancel a corporate flight that was to carry a cancer patient to the West Coast. As a consolation, Mahoney wrote a letter to 1,500 leading American companies, urging them to help CAN. In response, 100 firms signed up. Today more than 270 firms participate...
...Norton Simon, Mahoney and his fellow investors plan to employ a maneuver known as the leveraged buyout. They will borrow the necessary cash primarily from banks, using the company's assets as collateral. This could permit Mahoney, who now controls only about 3% of the company, to pull off his gambit with minimal personal investment or risk...
...Mahoney reshaped the company by selling off more than 20 businesses and buying up firms like Max Factor (1973) and Avis (1977). His ability to produce profits, though, has been less inspiring. In the first quarter of this year, Norton Simon's operating profits fell 62%, to $8.9 million...