Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When an attempted buyout of UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, collapsed two months ago, the news sparked the minicrash of Oct. 13. Now the failed bid is the talk of Wall Street once again, this time because of a Wall Street Journal report that bankers and lawyers will earn $58.7 million in fees for the deal, despite its downfall. More than $8 million will go to the investment firm Lazard Freres, which advised United's pilots union in the labor-management bid to buy the carrier for $6.8 billion...
...Kimberly Scearce '91, editor-in-chief of the The Harvard Independent, on the free speech report's apparent restriction of the press...
...Meselson said he became suspicious of the government's claims two months later when he read a State Department report stating that yellow rain contained traces of pollen...
...biochemist added that his research, combined with an Army report in which Laotian refugees identified bee feces as the substance they had seen, convinced Meselson that yellow rain was not a biological weapon...
...Also from the free speech report...