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...this year, up from 2,463 deals worth $96 billion during the comparable period a year ago. As corporate raiders are well aware, institutional investors are more prone than other kinds of shareholders to sell during a raid, in order to gain a quick profit. They are also readier to hear arguments that focus on the value of corporations when broken into component assets rather than on their worth as ongoing enterprises. A poignant rendition of the managerial plight comes from Andrew Sigler, chairman of Stamford, Conn.-based Champion International, a $5 billion wood-products firm. Some 80% of Champion...
Most important, U.S. journalism is generally good. Reporters and editors are better educated than their predecessors and are readier to take on difficult topics. Partly as a result of the influence of television, which has made the world seem smaller, many local newspapers now publish considerably more international news, and not all of it is revolutions and earthquakes. Social trends, which newspapers long overlooked because they were not events that happened the day before, are now covered thoughtfully. In recent years, the press has learned to report about economics, education, medicine, science and the computer revolution as fully and discerningly...
Bahrain's rulers are readier today to take the political risks of opening their country to a more substantial American military presence, because they are more worried than they were a year ago about their security. They are still recovering from the shock of an abortive coup d'état last December. It was staged by dissident Shi'ites, members of a Muslim sect that dominates Iran and constitutes a majority in Bahrain. The nation is an obvious target for Iranian attempts to export the Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic revolution. One of the masterminds...
...phrase evokes an intimate sense of community, leafy serenity, free of the sinister strangers who menace the cold, grimy canyons of the city. U.S. literature has abounded with ugly portraits of small towns like Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, but the wistful ideal has survived. Americans have always been readier to be pierced by the human loveliness of Our Town than convinced by the grotesqueries of Winesburg, Ohio...
...Mondale was sworn in as Vice President by-at his own request -House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Then came Carter's turn. "Are you ready to take the oath of office?" Chief Justice Warren Burger asked him at precisely 12:03 p.m. No man had ever been readier. While Rosalynn held the family Bible, Carter placed his hand on it; in front of him was the Bible used for George Washington's swearing-in, open to the verse from the prophet Micah that Carter quoted moments later in his Inaugural Address. "Congratulations," murmured Burger after the oath...