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...popular Hardy-family films between 1937 and 1947, knew no crime or addiction. The lawns in front of those two-story white houses were as smooth as an Emerald City carpet, and Dad's morning newspaper always landed smartly on the front porch. When girls gossiped about "the pill," they were referring to an % unpopular guy at the far end of the study hall. If Go-Getting Teenager Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) got "in trouble" with a debutante or chorus girl, it wouldn't be that kind of trouble--just the yelp of puppy love. And it wouldn...
...expected opposition. | "Everybody will know whom we're talking about," he said, "so why not?" Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, whose country has the closest economic and emotional ties to its former colony Libya, was perhaps the most reluctant to go along. While Craxi eventually conceded, his bitter pill of support was sugared by an agreement to add Italy, as well as Canada, to the regular sessions that have been held by the finance ministers of the five other nations...
...bonds and who have felt unfairly battered in the merger and takeover wars that have rocked Wall Street. In their view, many of those battles led to substantial portfolio losses for investors as beleaguered corporate executives paid off would-be takeover artists with greenmail, adopted so-called poison-pill measures to dissuade unwanted suitors by making their firms less attractive targets, or handed themselves fat settlements known as golden parachutes. All too often, argues New York's Goldin, "the shareholders have gotten short shrift...
...required for a significant range of management actions. Among them: issuing stock that would dilute the voting power of existing shares by 20% or more, selling 20% or more of corporate assets to a hostile bidder in exchange for a takeover cease-fire, paying greenmail, or adopting a poison pill. Says Roland Machold, director of New Jersey's treasury division of investment: "We just want to be brought in on the big decisions...
Groups of four or more students come to the Harvard-affiliated hospital once a week for eight hours to test different types of drugs. The three pills each take range in strength from a placebo--which is a simple sugar pill--to a maximum dosage, which, says Orzack, is "still within the limits each subject has taken recreationally...