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...mania continues for junior Ben Bowen, who again won in the 500 meter race. Bowen has taken first in the three meets in which...
...sake, irrespective of what was being merged-and even if the merger could be accomplished only by borrowing so many billions as to crush the merged company under a mountain of debt. We are still living with the consequences. The need to undo some mergers helped launch the downsizing mania that has spawned a crazy credo: companies exist not for the purpose of producing goods and services, nor even maximizing profits, but in order to reduce their work forces...
Only thirty minutes of back-country road separate my home from Storrs, Connecticut and Gampel Pavilion home of the Huskies. The players occasionally shop at the local mall. Coach Jim Calhoun makes his summertime rounds on a nearby golf course. Husky mania has, quite literally, been very near and dear...
...Trek movies have earned a total of nearly $500 million at the box office. Videocassettes (of every series episode, as well as the movies) are so popular that most video stores devote an entire section to them. Star Trek is seen around the world in 75 countries, and Trek mania has hit many of them; the official Star Trek fan club in Britain has 18,000 members. Trek-related merchandise, ranging from T shirts and backpacks to a $2,200 brass replica of the Enterprise, has exploded in the past five years, with total revenues topping $1 billion. More than...
...Merger mania continued in the telecommunications industry. Long-distance phone company LDDS Communications proffered $2.5 billion in cash for WilTel, the long-distance unit of Williams Cos. The deal bolsters LDDS's ambitions to challenge AT&T, MCI and Sprint. Meanwhile, AT&T received federal court approval for a $12.6 billion plan to buy McCaw Cellular Communications, the country's largest wireless-phone company...