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...chairman Gerald Levin, who are widely reported to have been negotiating in person. Bronfman has to decide whether to buy enough additional Time Warner shares to push Seagram's holdings past the 15% mark. If he does, Levin must ponder whether to activate a device known as a "poison pill" designed specifically to prevent any "unfriendly" investor from acquiring more than 15%. Essentially, the company would issue enough new stock to knock a 15% holding down to about 5% or less. That, in effect, would force Bronfman's hand: Seagram could avoid having its ownership diluted only by making...
...appointment of Albert Carnesale as provost may be the prescription that integrates the University's decentralized schools and departments, but it is a bitter pill for the Kennedy School of Government faculty to swallow...
Technology will also have a part to play. The inevitable arrival of RU-486 will make abortion a quicker, easier decision for many. For those in the middle, declaring abortion to be murder will be even harder when the procedure is little more than taking a pill...
They were for house committee, for Pete's sake! Take a chill pill...
...know why I didn't" was all she said. "I wasn't thinking. I usually use some sort of protection." Then she laughed, a nervous, high, laugh. "I used to be on the pill," she told me. "I stopped about two months ago. This is the first time in while I haven't been careful...