Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thom McCabe, MRA president, said his organization is serious about enforcement...
THERE are, of course, serious problems with out-of-court settlements on constitutional cases. First, ad hoc settlements cannot guarantee a national solution to a problem. It may solve Illinois' abortion woes, or Michigan's gender discrimination case, but there will not be a national standard to protect such rights...
...interest in a buyout, only to sell out after the stock price rose. Among his targets have been Golden Nugget, Pillsbury and Federated Department Stores. But because he has made an outright offer this time, analysts tend to think this is no bluff. "If the bid weren't serious, it wouldn't be $120 a share," says Helane Becker of Shearson Lehman Hutton...
...Wall Street the takeover speculators seem to think that the Trump- Crandall fight is too close to call. AMR closed at 103 3/4 on Friday, up 17 1/4 points for the week but 16 1/4 points below Trump's bid. Some speculators were not persuaded that Trump is serious about the bid. Despite his high profile, Trump as a businessman remains an enigma. Last week Playboy magazine disclosed that a clothed Trump may grace its cover early next year. Perhaps American Airlines is just another plaything for the man who has everything...
...make Lester look like a philosopher-king among the pompous nitwits who produce prime-time TV. Cliff agrees, but because he tries to turn Lester's story into a truthful expose, the project collapses. Along the way he loses the woman he loves (Mia Farrow), as well as a serious film to which he had been profoundly committed...