Word: standings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...merger, which will result in Time Warner Inc., had a lot going for it. Who, after all, would have the money or the fortitude to stand in the way of a solid agreement between two of America's biggest companies? Yet Time and Warner have long been considered takeover targets, and speculation arose that a raider might go after one of them soon, before a merger could create a nearly invulnerable behemoth. Everyone from Rupert Murdoch to Warren Buffet, the shrewd Omaha-based investor, was mentioned as a possible buyer. But no suitor had come forward by week...
...work as simple, spare and serious as Metamorphosis. One just wishes it were better. Despite an effective stage- acting debut by dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, the most ballyhooed highbrow event in the theater so far this year is all but bereft of emotional force. At the finale, two actresses stand rigid, their cheeks glazed with tears, yet much of the audience reacts only with uneasy titters. Director Steven Berkoff's highly stylized script and direction circle around the story, adding layer upon layer of ornament, when what is needed is a clean, quick cut to the emotional core of an incident...
...STAND AND DELIVER (PBS, March 15, 8 p.m. on most stations). Edward James Olmos is up for an Academy Award for his performance as a dedicated inner-city math teacher in this fact-based film, produced for American Playhouse and now having its TV debut...
...profitable Northeast shuttle to Donald Trump for $365 million. Two days after the bankruptcy notice, Eastern Express, a Florida commuter airline owned by a Texas Air subsidiary, changed its name to Continental Express. Said J.B. Stokes, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association: "It was either make the stand now, while there's still something left to fight for, or do it six months later, when there's nothing left...
...believed the equipment was intended only for pharmaceutical production. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied that Egypt had any plans to make poison gas. "This is the first I've heard of it," he said. "We are against chemical weapons." The U.S. now faces a potential dilemma: how to stand by its strong opposition to chemical weapons without alienating a strategic ally...