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Whether or not anything should be done to restrict takeovers, specific steps can be taken to slow down insider trading. One would be to cut back steeply on the time speculators have to maneuver before a takeover bid is publicly announced. Under current SEC rules, corporate raiders have ten days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going After the Crooks | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

With a banner reading "Harvard Police--350 Days--No Contract," the policemen's union took advantage of Saturday's Harvard-Yale game crowd to publicize its year-long campaign to renew its contract with the University. The aerial maneuver cost the HUPA an estimated $250, said Vice President of HUPA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

As long as the deep secret was kept -- even from most of the U.S. intelligence community -- the maneuver in one sense worked. Iran apparently leaned on Lebanese terrorists to set free three American hostages, the latest of whom, David Jacobsen, flew home to the U.S. last week for a Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. and Iran | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

Perhaps even the hawkish Shamir has more freedom of maneuver than Peres had. Like Nixon's opening to China and Begin's treaty with Egypt, the hawks can deliver what the doves cannot. Perhaps.

Author: By Laurie A. Mylroie, | Title: Shifting Gears in Israel | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

Mathias was most effective on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he fought off efforts to tinker with the Constitution through amendments to permit school prayer, outlaw abortion and require a balanced budget. He paid for his positions when Republicans won control of the Senate in 1980: conservatives persuaded Strom Thurmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell to a Quartet of Kings of the Hill | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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