Word: martin
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Kennedy School Lecturer Martin Linsky, whose research has focused on campaigns and the media, similarly criticizes Dukakis for being "slow to react to data that he doesn't consider serious, or credible. [This] creates a problem...
Corporate Production Director: Martin J. Gardner
When civil rights activists commemorated Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday last year with a march in predominantly white Forsyth County, Ga., the Ku Klux Klan turned up to provide harassment and abuse. Fifty of the demonstrators, represented by attorney Morris Dees of the nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center, sued the Klan on grounds of conspiracy to violate the marchers' right to free expression. In Atlanta last week, U.S. district judge Charles Moye unsealed the verdict: Klan and Klansmen owe the marchers $950,400 in damages. It was the second wallop of a verdict against the K.K.K. lately...
...week's end KKR had the highest offer on the table, but the Shearson team was preparing a new bid. Ultimately, RJR Nabisco's board of directors, which includes such outsiders as Charles Hugel, president of Combustion Engineering and Martin Davis, chairman of Gulf & Western, will probably have the final say on who, if anyone, buys the company. Some Wall Streeters think the financing will prove so difficult that KKR and Shearson will have to work together. In a conciliatory move on Friday, KKR said it would not press for selling off the tobacco division...
...Montgomery Ward department-store chain, bought by its executives from Mobil; the former ITT subsidiary that makes Scott lawn products; the onetime Unisys unit that produces Nu-kote ribbons for typewriters and computer printers. "Management buyouts create powerful incentives for entrepreneurship, risk taking and long-term planning," says Martin Dubilier, chairman of a New York City investment firm that bankrolls many executives seeking control of their companies...