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...have spent $182 billion to merge with or acquire other firms. Companies, though, often complete a deal only to have Washington veto it as anticompetitive. Last year Mobil Corp. announced plans to spend an estimated $6.5 billion in what eventually turned out to be a futile struggle to acquire Marathon Oil Co. The takeover was blocked in federal court because it was decided that such a merger would have an adverse effect on competition in gasoline retailing in the Midwest...
...York has more professional sports than boroughs. Boston has Larry Bird. Carl Yastrzemski and the Marathon. Los Angeles has Magic Johnson and Steve Garvey; Alabama has The Tide, and Indianapolis has The Race. Each year on the Sunday before Memorial Day, an estimated 375,000 people gather for "The Greatest Single-Day Sporting Event In The World," the Indy 500. Officially the race doesn't have a name. it is the only event held at the Indianapolis Motor Speed-way each year, and the tickets say simply, "500 mile race." But to a large segment of the American auto-racing...
During the past year alone, a number of the biggest and best-known American steel companies have been diversifying out of the industry. U.S. Steel spent $6.2 billion to acquire Marathon Oil Co. The steel giant is now seeking to sell off a 50% interest in RMI Co., the second largest American producer of titanium, a steel-like strategic metal that is crucial to the aerospace industry, to help pay for the Marathon take over. Meanwhile, National Steel Corp., the sixth largest U.S. producer, has spent $75 million to take over savings and loans in Miami and New York...
...time pro basketball's interminable dance marathon turns into ballet, so few people are left watching. It is a pity. The game simply cannot be played all-out or very well for 100 nights over six months, so the National Basketball Association is at its best only near the end of the season, when everyone cares almost half as much as Larry Bird and Julius Erving do all of the time...
...meticulously described by that the most interesting and readable portions of the book Kiesling seems to remember every stroke of every race he rowed for four years and makes even non-rowers feel the pain and the adrenaline of a race In particular. The Race, the grueling, four-mile marathon held annually in June between Harvard and Yale's heavy weight crews...