Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rejecting a $2.6 billion takeover bid from a group headed by Los Angeles investor Marvin Davis. In spurning the $90-a-share offer, NWA Chairman Steven Rothmeier, 42, said his firm fully intends to remain independent. But Davis, whose group owns 3% of NWA's shares, vowed to press ahead with plans to acquire the company and its prize asset, Northwest, the fourth largest U.S. airline. The Californian's bid has raised the hackles of many Minnesotans, who are still smarting from last year's takeover of local giant Pillsbury by Britain's Grand Metropolitan...
GROUPS should not avoid speaking out in public simply because uninformed members of the administration, press or public may see them as representative of the student body as a whole. The staff position is that the group should be held responsible for such a misinterpretation. The more sensible conclusion is that those who make the mistake of thinking HUSO represents the student body should be criticized. To conclude otherwise is to endorse self-censorship and discourage open and freewheeling debate...
Sheehan, who headed United Press International's Vietnam bureau from 1962 to 1964 and obtained the Pentagon Papers as a New York Times reporter, said yesterday that until Vietnam, American wars had always been thought of as crusades characterized by "messianic rhetoric...
From home plate outward, Fenway looks much the same as it did in 1934 when the refurbished park was opened with its fabled "Green Monster" left field wall. Behind home plate, time appears to be marching on. The park now boasts an $18 million press luxury box complete with elevators and a restaurant. On opening day the elevators weren't operating. Neither was the cafe...
...year and a half. The Soviet consulate in Paris had informed us by telephone on the morning of Dec. 30 of the latest denial. Then, after two days of negotiations, they had to give us a visa. If they had not, a scandal would have broken out in the press. After all, for many years -- since our arrest -- my name has been inextricably linked with that of Daniel's (Sinyavsky-Daniel, Daniel-Sinyavsky...