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...advent of such an '80s-style fight had Wall Streeters in a spasm of nostalgia for a decade in which it seemed that deals had to be mean if they were going to be big. Propelled by Diller's bid and constant rumors of new suitors, Paramount stock rose 7 3/8 a share, to close at 75 7/8 last week. Arbitragers, who purchase the stock of takeover targets in the hope that deals will be completed, welcomed the battle and became voracious buyers. Fee- hunting investment bankers scrambled to draw other bidders into the fray and grab some...
...first it looked like nothing more than a violent spasm in the 23-year-long war between Germany's Red Army Faction terrorists and the government. On June 27, operatives belonging to GSG-9, the country's antiterrorist unit, attempted to arrest suspects Wolfgang Grams, 40, and his girlfriend Birgit Hogefeld, 37, at the train station in Bad Kleinen, a small town in eastern Germany. Officials reported that as police closed in, Grams pulled a pistol, killed an officer and was then gunned down in the brief shootout that followed...
...each famous case has come an official spasm. The Basu case prompted Congress to classify carjacking as a federal crime with a prison sentence of at least 15 years, and a life sentence if the victim dies. One of the two men involved in the Basu carjacking has been sentenced to life; the other is on trial and may receive capital punishment...
...doctor asked me if I was allergic to anything," says Martin. "I said aspirin and penicillin. But he gave me a shot of Demerol which causes a reaction in people allergic to aspirin and penicillin. I went into a spasm...
...October 1990, party leader L.K. Advani escalated his campaign: he led a 6,200-mile procession across India in support of the movement to build the Rama temple. Lethal riots followed, but the extremist spasm had its desired effect. In 1991 the Bharatiya Janata Party won four state governments and 119 seats in the lower house, which made it the official opposition to Rao's ruling Congress Party...