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...three economists and 11 other academic experts--including 1987 Nobel Prize recipient Robert Solow '44 and 1970 prize winner Paul A. Samuelson, both of the MIT, and Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith--have signed a position paper saying the CLT proposal would severely damage the state's economic foundation by hurting Massachusetts' education system...
...dispute could result in protracted litigation and block a potential sale. The U.S. Tax Court agreed and thus effectively ensured that the family would not have to sell off properties, as other media clans have had to do, to pay the tax bill. Wrote Washington Post economic columnist Robert Samuelson: "The scheme's beauty, of course, is that the Newhouses can apparently have it both ways. For estate tax purposes, the value of the company is artificially lowered. But should the family ever want to sell, it can easily realize the company's full market value by offering...
...America" is like a dense, compelling Wurman guide, suggesting half-conscious connections between then and now, Europe and America, TV and print. Within a few minutes a visitor can see an 1864 American-flag campaign broadside, collections of Coke bottles through the years (the original was designed by Alexander Samuelson in 1915), a little bag that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for a San Francisco glass-and-china shop in 1942, the sweetly all-American Ritz cracker box, the computer-animated opening credits to the 1978 Superman movie and six pages from USA Today...
...exercise bicycles, has been widely praised. But Reebok's recent "Let U.B.U." ad campaign, which starred eccentric characters in surrealistic situations, was considered a bust. All the major manufacturers have hired celebrity pitchmen. Nike pays multitalented pro athlete Bo Jackson to sell its cross- trainer shoe, and Joan Benoit Samuelson to advertise its running line. L.A. Gear keeps retired Los Angeles Lakers star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on its payroll; his former coach Pat Riley is under contract with Reebok...
...Samuelson] didn't affect my race," Kristiansen said. "I was in better shape than...