Word: recommendations
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Some peace overtures were also made in the merger wars last week. The board of soft-drink producer Royal Crown Cos. reversed itself and agreed to recommend that stockholders accept a $40-a-share bid by Florida-based Investor Victor Posner unless a better offer comes along. Posner, an aggressive and frequently feared accumulator of big blocks of corporate stock, controls more than 26% of Royal Crown's shares. Separately, a Castle & Cooke-led group dropped its efforts to swallow Dr Pepper, another beverage company, which is planning to sell out to Forstmann Little & Co., a private investment firm...
...Super Bowl, gains in perspective represent the toughest yardage of all. Lining up in a prevent defense for 18 years, perspective has been conceding huge slabs of ground to outlandishness. During the early days of Roman numerals, President Nixon was content to recommend flanker-reverse plays. Now President Reagan appears on a split screen to express his nuclear reaction to a 191-yd. performance by Raiders Running Back Marcus Allen. Because of the Super Bowl, the stock market in New York goes down, some bookies in Las Vegas go broke and a water main in Salt Lake City goes blooey...
...course that it itself is enough to recommend the play for its sheer amusement. Keep the spicy jokes, but take it easy on the out-of-place social commentary, and Innaurato can still give you the ingredients for a delightful, if not necessarily through provoking, foray into cultural comedy...
After what Secretary to the Faculty John R. Marquand called "a very thorough discussion" over two meetings, the Council voted with one abstention to recommend the reimbursement to the Faculty...
...wonders in the end why they don't go away-little tyrants, grand tyrants-all repeating themselves from year to year, reaching the same unimaginative decision about obliterating their impediments. The idea has simplicity to recommend it. "Nothing will come of nothing," King Lear told one of his daughters. He was wrong, of course. Everything comes of nothing in King Lear, as it tends to elsewhere, Argentina included. Technically the desaparecidos are nothing; the conscience and resolve of the new administration are nothing. Because of such nothings, former President Bignone is in prison this week...