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Then there are other ploys called shark repellents. One of those involves revising corporate bylaws to stagger the terms of directors so that only a few come up for election in any one year. To get a majority, a raider would have to wait at least two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deft Defenses: Corporate Takeovers | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...time with the medic. Then what to our wandering eyes should appear But a miniature sleigh with a shitload of beer. Down Molson, down Heinie, down Miller and more; Up Beckski, up Strohski, all over the floor. Watch out for that lamppost--hold tight to the wall-- Now stagger off, stagger off, stagger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Seasonal Odyssey | 12/16/1983 | See Source »

...series of downs. Yale steadied briefly in the third quarter and moved determinedly in the customary direction to tie Harvard with a touchdown. When Harvard fluffed the extra point after its next score, it seemed possible that if Yale could cross the goal line once more, it might stagger to a victory that would embarrass the Crimson for decades. Wobbles and bobbles dissipated this thin hope, and Harvard kicked a field goal to produce an emphatic if not excessive final score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: The 100th Classic | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

Livestock will also munch on cheese, potatoes, oranges, birdseed, beet pulp, cotton seeds, tallow, brewery mash and chocolate-chip cookies. "Pigs love chocolate. They really do," says Robert Easter, an associate professor of animal science at the University of Illinois. The mash, however, causes the swine to stagger drunkenly a bit at first. Some farmers have used such products for years, especially in times of drought. But some animal nutritionists say the use of alternative feed, though not widespread at all, has become more attractive in these hard economic times. With proper dietary balancing, the experts say, the animals will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Americana: Oct. 3, 1983 | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...seat theater of the Palais des Festivals, where the two dozen official selections are shown, film buffs file in at 1 in the morning for Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's rendering of Wagner's Parsifal. Nearly five hours later they stagger out into the dawn's hazy light, exhausted and exhilarated. In midafternoon, Menahem Golan, the Israeli producer who now heads his own distribution company, sits on a teeming Carlton terrace flanked by Stalin-era-size posters of his stars: Faye Dunaway, Robert Mitchum, Brooke Shields, Lou Ferrigno. "I have sold a million dollars in film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Movie Marathon at Cannes | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

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