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...company agreed to a friendly acquisition by Warner Communications, whose TV studio already produces such hits as Night Court and Growing Pains, for $630 million in stock and the assumption of $550 million of Lorimar's debt. But late in the week came word of a potential rival bid. Marvin Davis, the Denver oilman who once owned 20th Century Fox, is considering making an offer of about $690 million for Lorimar. A Dallas-style brawl may ensue...
Other reporters have suggested that Jackson left the University of Illinois only after academic troubles and not because of the racist atmosphere Jackson claims existed. On Candidates '88, Marvin Kalb interviewed Jackson just like everyone else. So did David Frost on the Making of the President. In a Boston debate, local television reporter Andy Hiller pointedly challenged Jackson's record with regard to Jews and Israel. And early in the campaign, reporters put Jackson in the headlines for lending his face to an advertisement for a business school, forcing him to apologize and withdraw his endorsement...
...filing a $250 million suit against Griffin for interfering in the Resorts/Trump merger, the entertainer promptly countersued for $500 million. Trump, he charged, had misled stockholders about the company's value and breached his fiduciary responsibility by not considering a more attractive offer. "It's a real war," says Marvin B. Roffman, a senior security analyst for the Janney Montgomery Scott investment firm. "Griffin is dead serious...
Thursday, 14--Norman Ornstein Professor of Political Punditry Marvin Kalb announces his candidacy for President of the United States. "During my 'Candidates '88' conversations I have convinced myself that I am smarter, better informed and better looking than the current crop of candidates," Kalb told himself in an interview broadcast this morning...
...asked a question, the expert system blindly searches through its data base to see which rules apply, then searches through the data base again to find the data for the rule. More sophisticated knowledge systems store information in frames, which organize it along with its relevant attributes. AI Pioneer Marvin Minsky of M.I.T. noticed that when people enter a room, they have a set of expectations about what they will find -- a desk or chair, perhaps, but certainly not, for example, an ocean. His idea was to package information in a way that accommodates those expectations: a room might also...