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...seems to be close for Bronfman and for Time Warner 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...
...took a month to ponder it because I wanted to make sure of what I was doing," Rudenstine said. "It's not a horse race. It's question of fit between the experience and interests...
Other companies are tentatively trodding that ground. MGM plans to open a store in its headquarters in Santa Monica, California, this summer, and MCA- Universal is pondering an expansion of the retail activities that are currently confined to its theme parks in California and Florida. But perhaps all the newcomers should ponder the fate of other studio retail ventures. At the apogee of Bart-mania, a Simpsons store opened in Los Angeles and quickly folded. Jay Ward, producer of Rocky and Bullwinkle, has a tiny store on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, but it is no cash cow or money moose...
...shame on the citizens of the Steel City, who in the past routinely left empty seats for the good postseason baseball action of their Pirates. And now, for the winners of two of the last three Stanley Cups...pass me a Rolling Rock while I stop to ponder this...
Most of us here will never be in the situation Schindler was, where the society in which we live has been perverted into one of pure evil. So while we may ponder how we would react in such a situation, the question is a hypothetical...