Word: owned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But why did Harvard, a non-profit institution, endorse SAS, a for-profit company, especially when the University's own officers are the ones making a profit? And while Harvard insists the deans observed all University conflict-of-interest regulations, how can this be reconciled with the fact that these...
Congress always wages an uneven battle with the President, but Democratic political consultant Ted Van Dyk declares, "The troops are starting to get restless. There have been no clear alternatives and damn little criticism. Foley and Mitchell should be out front." Yet the Democrats have been mired in troubles of...
Yet the three republics are also the cause of Gorbachev's greatest anxiety. Thanks to his policies of decentralization and democratization, the powers that be in the Baltics are looking less nervously toward Moscow, but they are also listening far more attentively to their own people.
Increasingly, Baltic leaders are hearing demands for "national rights." For some proponents the phrase means full sovereignty, now. For others it means autonomy within a radically more lenient U.S.S.R. Estonian officials are busily planning to introduce their own currency, airline and diplomatic missions abroad. The so-called popular fronts, with...
Amid the growing scrutiny, the takeover whirl accelerated last week. In Chicago directors of UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, approved a bid by the carrier's management and pilots' union to buy out the second largest U.S. carrier for $6.75 billion. In the highly leveraged deal, employees would...