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...Mary T. Meagher, a U.S. swimmer, the atmosphere is, simply, beautiful. For track stars, the Olympics may be a means, but for swimmers it is everything. They come to the Games prepared to laugh. "Let this, go out nationwide," proclaims Steve Lundquist. "I need a job. I'm keeping my ears open, and they certainly are big enough." Lundquist, 23, and Meagher, 19, are two of the sport's grizzled journeymen. She was a record holder at age five, a world champion by 14. Then, in 1980, what should have been Meagher's Olympics went on without...
After an understandable slump-common among U.S. swimmers and something of a national malaise, as Jimmy Carter might say-Meagher rallied grandly. Now she can contemplate three golds. "The Pan-Am Games are great, the Worlds are wonderful," she says. "But the Olympics are the Olympics. Everyone walking around the village smiling, speaking their own language but understanding all the same. This is just how I've always dreamed it would be, maybe even more cheerful...
...will Gulfs 300,000 shareholders fare badly. They hold 165 million shares that since last summer have jumped in value from $40 to $80 a share, for a total gain of more than $6 billion. Says Donald Drapkin, a merger specialist with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, a leading New York City law firm: "Pickens created real value for Gulf shareholders in a stock that was stagnant before he arrived on the scene...
DUKE(89)--Jay Bilas 2-2-6; Dan Meagher 2-0-4; Mark Alarie 11-1-23; Tommy Amaker 0-0-0; Johnny Dawkins 15-3-33; David Henderson 4-11-19; Doug McNeely 2-0-4. Fouled out; Bilas...
...first step is to hire outside advisers, including an investment bank and a law firm that specializes in mergers and acquisitions. Among law firms, New York City's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, for example, is well known for keeping unwanted suitors away. So feared is the firm's takeover specialist, Joseph Flom, 60, that 200 corporations pay fat retainers just to guarantee that Flom will work for them, and not against them, should they become takeover targets. The retainers add up to about $10 million a year...