Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ranging from TWA to Allied department stores awash in red ink. "Many of the raiders' problems are self-inflicted," says Stuart Bruchey, a professor of economic history at the Columbia University Business School. "They jump into businesses that they don't understand, and expect to jump out with a quick profit. But they end up getting badly bogged down...
...managers seeking to repel them -- have made many companies less flexible and far more vulnerable to an economic slump. While the merger- / and-acquisition game will no doubt carry on in the 1990s, such deals are apt to be less grandiose and more carefully wrought than the quick-buck transactions that are currently coming to grief. Says J. Ira Harris, a Chicago-based senior partner of Lazard Freres: "These are only midterm grades. The real grades arrive when you have an old-fashioned recession and see who survives." When that report card is in, more raiders are likely to flunk...
Despite these faults, last weekend's performance could not completely destroy Gilbert and Sullivan's lyrics and music. Gilbert's quick-witted criticisms of the arbitrary English caste system--as well as some of the slapstick humor added by director Matt Buchanan--made the audience laugh...
...Drano: the quick fix," we thought. Just stand back and the problem will go away. Is this what Congress hoped with the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction package...
...Crimson came streaking out of the blocks to start the second half. A quick three-pointer by Co-Captain Fred Schernecker, a slam by James off a touchdown pass from Dana Smith, and a coast-to-coast drive by James--all in the first 1:18 of the half--gave Harvard the lead and forced a Brandeis timeout...