Word: majored
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...with any large merger, the Time-Warner deal will be reviewed by the Government to see if it poses any antitrust or other regulatory problems. The only major overlap between the two companies is that they are both big operators of local cable-TV systems. After the merger, Time Warner will serve 5.6 million customers, or 12% of U.S. households with cable. The new operation will still be smaller than the largest cable company, Tele-Communications, which serves 24% of the industry's customers. Experts say that unless President Bush takes a tougher antitrust stance than the Reagan Administration...
Time Warner Inc. will be one of the major forces in news, information and entertainment in the 21st century, ensuring an American presence in a competition that lately has been dominated by foreign enterprises. In 1941 Luce declared the 20th century to be the American century. We believe he would have recognized that the 21st century will be a global century and would heartily approve this move positioning the company he started to continue to play its historic role...
More than two years after it began, the Justice Department's investigation into the Pentagon bribery scandal, code-named Ill Wind, may finally be poised to blow in some major indictments. Charles Gardner, a former top executive of Unisys Corp., pleaded guilty last week to bribing former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Melvyn Paisley in return for Paisley's help in winning at least $194 million in contracts on the Aegis electronic-warfare system...
...addition to the never-ending battle for Harvard divestment from South Africa and the push for more minority faculty, minorities organized and hosted three major events just last month: Visions '89, which brought together minorities from about 40 New England-area colleges to discuss minority issues, the AWARE (Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism) week, and Cultural Rhythms--an event which had the dual purpose of enlightening minorities about each other as well as exposing whites to different aspects of minority cultures...
...Prior were also major contributors at the plate, with Cox boasting a strong .320 average and Prior trailing only Crowley for the team RBI lead...