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Cleary smiled as he hugged his players,congratulated the Big Red, shook the hands ofYoung's little brother and Murphy's mom. He didnot look like a man who had just ended a 19-yearcoaching career with a losing season...
...second set, both players had one break, forcing a tiebreaker. Nastase was up 6-5 in the tiebreaker, but Engel rallied to win it, 9-7. After the players shook hands, Nastase took time to sign some autographs before showering and heading over to a reception at Dillon Fieldhouse...
...Senate. The favorite was Coke Stevenson, "by far the most popular Governor in the history of Texas, a public official, moreover, who had risen above politics to become a legend." As if beating "Mr. Texas" was not burden enough, L.B.J. developed a kidney stone. Daily he made speeches and shook hands and then collapsed in a car in agony. Eventually the stone was removed, and he was off again, against the advice of doctors. The suffering paid off: in the primary runoff, it was Stevenson vs. Johnson...
...days that shook the world, dissident playwright Vaclav Havel was swept out of political detention into the presidency of Czechoslovakia. Last week Havel delivered to a joint meeting of Congress an extraordinary speech about democratic ideals, the rebirth of the human spirit and America's role in the post-cold...
Thanks in part to Drexel, the 1980s became the decade of the deal. In 1986 alone, 3,973 takeovers, mergers and buyouts were completed in the U.S., at a record total cost of $236 billion. While some takeovers shook up overly complacent managers and led to useful restructuring, much of the raiding served only to distract corporate America from its real work of improving products and services. In the view of Wall Street's critics, hundreds of deals were done for the sake of the fees and stock payoffs they would generate. This was not the way Wall Street traditionally...