Word: springs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texaco, has tirelessly hectored its top management for 1 1/2 years with charges that the giant oil company is poorly run. Icahn has repeatedly threatened to stage a hostile takeover, and even tried unsuccessfully to replace Texaco's directors in an old-fashion proxy fight late last spring. Finally, after 14 hours of peace talks, Icahn agreed last week to sign a standstill agreement that prevents him from buying any more stock in the company or trying to wrest control for another seven years...
...object of all these travels was to arrange a climactic summit between Deng and Gorbachev in Beijing this spring, perhaps in May. The easing of tensions is certain to produce diplomatic fallout of global importance. It could lead to a new era of stability in Asia, where the 4,500-mile Chinese- Soviet border sometimes threatened to become the fuse for war, perhaps even nuclear conflict. The U.S. might be losing its "China card," but the world will gain a new style of superpower diplomacy: no more will China be the stick for the U.S. to beat the Soviets...
...recommendations of the 1980 committee were never implemented, and many department chairs interviewed by MSA last spring did not even remember the report...
...although the Verba report has yet to be released, many say that the government professor's experience with the ins and outs of the Harvard bureaucracy will help once the report's conclusions are debated before the full Faculty later this spring...
...destruction should not have surprised anyone--the University announced last spring that it intended to demolish the building and replace it with a five-story hotel. What was disturbing was the timing of the move and the University's straightforward admission that it destroyed the building before it was eligible to attain landmark status...