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Barakett followed 10 minutes later when Eddie Krayer flipped a pass to him from behind the Raider net. Barakett, standing to the right of Colgate goalie Wayne Cowley, who finished with 33 saves, took the puck and flipped it past the flailing goalie...
With 10 minutes left in the second period, Bourbeau took the puck into the left corner. He was smothered by Raider defensemen, but managed to slip a pass to Young in front of the Colgate...
...reports of abuses in the takeover game proliferate, the political pressure to put new curbs on corporate raiders is sure to rise. At last week's hearing before the House Monopolies Subcommittee, A.A. Sommer, a Washington securities lawyer and former SEC commissioner, delivered a strong denunciation of takeover mania. Said he: "American enterprise, at a time when all its energies are needed for the worldwide economic struggle, is being driven by a . handful of opportunists into a massive restructuring, with consequences that may be disastrous." Sommer's argument struck a responsive chord among the legislators. Said Democratic Representative Mary Rose...
...issue is not that simple. In many cases a raider's acquisition bid may be one of the few defenses that shareholders have against inept, self- serving and complacent management. Many economists, along with key figures in the Reagan Administration, believe executives should be subjected to the full discipline of the marketplace, including the threat of takeover...
...Walsh could make a serviceable quarterback out of an usher, but no one can be taught to lift a team the way Joe Montana raised the 49ers 55 days after back surgery. "Armies work hard for Lancelot," Guard Randy Cross says, "harder for King Arthur." At 38, oft- deposed Raider Jim Plunkett keeps coming back to reign in Los Angeles...