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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University should post guards in the building, at all times, who rove through the floors, particularly the quiet upper floors, and who can watch the Cafe and the basement in the evenings. Harvard should post permanent guards at the frequently-used, yet remote study areas on the upper floors and in the basement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Chilling Reminder | 12/13/1988 | See Source »

Harvard has scored 73 goals, an average of 6.6 per game. At this pace, the Crimson would have 172 goals at the end of the regular season, 15 shy of the record. Throw in a handful of post-season contests and this team has a good shot at the record...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Harvard Knocking on the Door of Greatness | 12/13/1988 | See Source »

...Nabisco offices a few blocks away, Johnson was furious when he learned that the board was ready to sell the company to KKR. His legal advisers swiftly drafted a letter to RJR chairman Charles Hugel, who heads the board but holds no managerial post in the company, declaring they were "astounded" that the directors "would go off into the middle of the night to negotiate." Hugel explained that the KKR bid simply was much higher. By 2 a.m., however, Johnson's advisers persuaded him that his chances were still alive. Armed with a new bid for $108 a share, Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 250,000,000,000 Buyout Barons : KKR outfox Ross Johnson's group | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...than 110 years there were three things American investors could count on: death, taxes and a profit at AT&T. Now they are back to two. For the first time since 1877, when Alexander Graham Bell founded what was then called the Bell Telephone Co., the telecommunications empire will post a loss for the year. The deficit, which could run as high as $1.7 billion, will be the result of AT&T's decision last week to scrap $5.6 billion worth of outdated equipment. In a drive to modernize, the company is replacing 2 billion miles of telephone connections with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ma Bell Gets Wired | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...that his premier dealmaking skills were what the strategic arms reduction talks were missing. For his part, Gorbachev gets a view of capitalism run amuck: Trump owns one of the city's biggest apartments (a $10 million, 20,000-sq.-ft. triplex), a palatial country house (Marjorie Merriweather Post's 118-room villa, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla.), a floating island for a yacht (once owned by Adnan Khashoggi), a giant helicopter (a 44-seat double rotor, under construction), the world's biggest gambling casino (the 120,000-sq.-ft. Taj Mahal in Atlantic City), and the biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Superpower to Another | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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