Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand are corporate raiders and many economists, who argue that takeovers and mergers help to make businesses more efficient. The threat of a takeover can be an effective way of dislodging inept managers. To Carl Icahn, the typical chief executive is merely "a nice guy, a good drinking buddy." Sir James Goldsmith, a feared acquisitor who gained control of the Crown Zellerbach paper company last summer, told Congress that he has freed firms from "the dead hand of the bureaucrat" who produced only "complacency, ossification and decline...
Defenseman Jerry Pawloski set up the Captain on the record-breaking goal, slipping a nice pass up the right boards...
...logic (note Wise's thought process: Diseases were dealt with poorly, doctors learned how to find cures, a new disease defies cure, so we should deal with disease defies cure, so we should deal with diseases poorly as we did in the first place, and then everything will be nice again and "our attitude will change"); and lack of creative thinking in general (Wise decides there can be only one possible way of dealing with a problem...
...break is the brainchild of the executive producer of NBC Sports, Michael Weisman, who "thought it would just be nice if everybody could kind of take an intermission." Advertisers applaud the idea, he claims, because viewers will more likely stay put for the commercials. And since the minute will come out of program time, not commercial time, NBC will forfeit no ad revenue ($400,000 per minute on the pregame show; a record $1.1 million per minute during the game). Nor is Weisman concerned about shortchanging viewers. "The universal criticism of Super Bowl pregame shows is that they...
...against him. An embarrassed Nobel Committee admitted that it had not been aware of the letter and expressed its "discomfort" at the news. Chazov professed not to understand the fuss. "I'm from Gorky," he said of the city where Sakharov has been exiled since 1980. "It's a nice town...