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John. Paul, George and Ringo created havoc because wherever they went; teenage girls were likely to collapse in great numbers or infiltrate hotels on search-and-scream missions. Mick Jagger was leading what appeared to be an outright insurrection. The Stones incited legitimate riots by 1965 and rarely got though more than four or five songs. Their fans either rushed the stage and destroyed their equipment or had so intimidated the hapless policemen sent to protect the performers that the power would be shut down...
...estimated to number from 6,000 to 24,000, vanished during the military regime's "dirty war" against left-wing terrorism during the late 1970s. The junta, for its part, had returned at least a few beloved ones, if not desaparecidos, to their families, having released 128 prisoners outright and 116 more on parole in an amnesty honoring the papal visit. The government denied that those released were political prisoners, but all had been held without charge at the pleasure of the junta...
...that price, Pickens decided that it was time to go for outright majority control, and two weeks ago he made his move. In a telephone call from his Texas headquarters to Waidelich in Tulsa, Pickens proposed, as a "friendly offer," that Mesa pay $50 a share, or $1.8 billion, for 46% of Cities Service stock, plus $1.9 billion more in promissory notes and Mesa stock for the remaining 49% of Cities Service shares. The startled Waidelich, faced with the prospect of seeing his company disappear into a firm a fraction of its size, fought back the next day with...
...American steel companies charge that the Europeans are using cutthroat tactics, including predatory pricing and domestic subsidies, to sell their products in the U.S. at less than it costs to manufacture them. They maintain that the Europeans can sell their products cheaply because many producers are either outright government owned or else heavily subsidized...
...Most people are shocked by their first experience at the rent control board," he says. "They go in expecting, because it is the rent control board, if not outright advocacy, then at least tenant protection. But they find it' not even that, even though that's their [the rent board's] mandate...