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Corporate raids have inspired such colorful defensive tactics as the Pac-Man counterattack and the poison pill. Now the managers at Borden, the food and consumer-products giant, have created a novel repellent they call a "people pill." Borden said last week that its top 25 officers have agreed to resign en masse during any takeover attempt if they believe stockholders are getting less than a fair price or if any executives are fired or demoted...
...discovered that his heart-bypass patients "almost without exception" have lower levels of HDL and slightly higher levels of triglycerides than people without heart disease. One theory is that excess triglycerides somehow mark HDL particles for elimination by the liver. When this occurs, says Gotto, "there is this Pac-man in the liver chewing up the HDL that ordinarily would be chewing up the plaque in the artery walls...
...Reagan tax cuts in 1981: he correctly predicted that they would produce large deficits. Since the two candidates differed so little on issues, Gray tried a negative campaign aimed mainly at Jeffords' acceptance of money from groups he helped. Eleven days before accepting $5,000 from a Teamsters PAC in 1987, Jeffords asked Attorney General Edwin Meese not to put the racket-ridden union under federal trusteeship. (Meese did so anyway.) A former state legislator and attorney general, Jeffords kept intact his record of never having lost a statewide election...
...column I wrote about college football. I said the reason the current bowl system is no good is that it hinders the best teams from playing each other. For instance, I said, it might make a Notre Dame-USC match impossible, since USC, if it wins the Pac-10 conference, is required to play the winner of the Big-10 conference in the Rose Bowl...
Others might argue that the tradition of bowl games would be destroyed. Tradition says the winner of the Pac 10 conference should play the winner of the Big Ten conference. And tradition is a good thing...