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...reported $750,000 a year, to wait around for a slot to open up. When Tom Snyder was deposed from his eight-year milk run, Letterman was ready to step in. Carson's company co-produces Letterman's show, scanning the guest list for duplications and overlap with The Tonight Show, an arrangement that enables Carson to foster Letterman's rise while also keeping a benign eye on the proceedings...
Another basic question that remains up in the air is the corporate shape of the divested telephone companies. Theoretically, AT&T could spin these off as 22 separate companies or even as one new and enormous operating company. Though 22 operating companies might produce administrative overlap and waste, simply creating a single megacom-pany could perpetuate the firm's current dominance over supplying telecommunications equipment...
...members of the troika, in contrast, are in effect?though not in title?three Chiefs of Staff. The duties and powers of the three men are ill defined; they overlap and intersect at a thousand points. The personalities differ in substantive ways. Meese, a cautious lawyer and the most conservative of the troika, specializes in summarizing conflicting arguments without committing himself. Baker, also a lawyer, is a hard-driving organizer with finely tuned political instincts. Deaver, an affable former public relations consultant, is concerned, above all, with the welfare and comfort of the First Family. Californians Meese and Deaver have...
Harvard came out strong and set up a try within the first three minutes. Driving ahead, the Crimson forwards won good ball from a ruck. Fly half Keith Watling dashed across the field and created an overlap, and while the Brown line raced about in disarray, Harvard took advantage of its extra man, with O'Hana carrying the ball...
...sure how widespread consulting is today or if it has increased over the last decade because often a professor's consulting activities overlap with his University duties. In addition, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has no monitoring system to log how much time its members spend consulting. Professors often feel sensitive about the subject and rarely discuss it. Ptashne, for example, refuses to comment on his work for Genetics Institute. "It's something you don't discuss much. There's a feeling that it's not your business," Richard J. Zeckhauser, professor of Political Economy and chairman...