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...same law that allows us to seize million-dollar condominiums in Nantucket, Rolls Royces and Cadillacs, also allows us to seize properties in Dorchester and Mattapan, '78 Chevrolets and...other properties that might be associated with drug dealing," said John Coleman, special agent-in-charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Boston office...
Enter Macy's. The 130-year-old company, founded by a former Nantucket whaler, stunned Wall Street by joining the fray. Chairman Edward Finkelstein, a shrewd, 40-year veteran with the company, had taken the firm private in a $3.7 billion leveraged buyout in 1986. Loaded with debt after that deal, Macy's seemed incapable of takeovers. Says Pavlos Alexandrakis, a retail analyst for Argus Research: "It's the last company you would expect to be out shopping...
...calendar were changed to push finals before Christmas break, those luscious weeks of September, when the crowds have left the Cape, the Vineyard, Nantucket and the Hamptons would be pushed out of the lives of the faculty. In addition many faculty members have vacation from mid-December till February under the current calendar. Putting finals before Christmas would erase this six-week, hiatus, and although certainly not all faculty members are of the "January-in-the-Caribbean" set, all of them are of the "Let's-dream-about-doing the Netherlands-Antilles-next-winter-maybe...
...prints erudite articles on how to distinguish different birds in the field and sets rules for the listing game. One such rule is that birds reaching North America through human assistance cannot be counted, touching off speculation on whether the Western Reef heron that drew hundreds of birders to Nantucket, Mass., in 1983 actually came over from Africa as a stowaway on a boat. The ABA checklist committee voted to accept the bird...
...network had blunted Turner's bid by offering to buy 21% of its own stock for nearly $1 billion. Even so, Wall Street remained convinced that CBS was a takeover candidate. Still concerned, Wyman interrupted a vacation to call Tisch from a pay phone on a dock on Nantucket Island. After more calls and meetings over the past two months, Wyman suggested that Loews buy up to 25% of CBS, and last week Tisch agreed...