Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boesky case had an instant sobering effect on the takeover game. As the thunder of the insider-trading disclosures rose in volume, a number of big plays suddenly came to a halt. Wickes, a Santa Monica, Calif., retailing and manufacturing conglomerate headed by Sanford Sigoloff, 56, announced that it might not be able to carry out the estimated $1.7 billion acquisition of California's Lear Siegler, the aerospace and automotive-products concern. Sigoloff's bankers, spooked by the Boesky scandal, apparently balked at financing the deal...
...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 Oakar of Ohio: "Corporate America is being held hostage by the corporate raider. Profitable companies are being driven into debt, American jobs lost, and American businesses are being taken overseas, all so that a few enormously wealthy individuals can add to their personal fortunes...
Sophomore QB Tom Yohe rose from pre-season obscurity to start five games for Harvard this year and establish himself as the quarterback of the future. Yohe led the trio of Crimson signal-callers with 596 yards on 45-for-102 pass attempts. He added five TDs and only three interceptions...
...most frequently cited by activists who support sex education and school clinics. In the first two- plus years of the study, the pregnancy rate fell 30% among teenagers who had access to birth-control supplies at a clinic near their school, while the pregnancy rate rose 57% among a control group...
...have their own favorite research, described by one of the authors in the Wall Street Journal but not yet generally available: two studies by Utah researchers named Stan Weed and Joseph Olsen. Their major finding is that during a period when the number of teens using family-planning clinics rose from 300,000 to 1.5 million, the teen pregnancy rate actually increased 19%. Births were down, they said, but only because of abortion. "Apparently the programs are more effective at convincing teens to avoid birth than to avoid pregnancy," Weed wrote in the Journal. The point: teens tend...