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...first problem is that the new companies have no experience in acting like companies. The idea that they are profit-making operations that owe their allegiance to people known as shareholders hasn't completely sunk in. When they get their hands on the proceeds of a stock sale, they don't necessarily spend it for the intended purpose. Maybe they were in the textile business, but the next thing you know, the management is making a movie or opening dim- sum joints...
...Washington state's 5th Congressional District race to GOP newcomer George Nethercutt. Just 2,174 votes (or 1 percent) down, Foley, the first sitting Speaker dumped since the Civil War, chose not to wait days for the final count -- which, half-completed, favored Nethercutt 55 to 45 percent. What sunk the 15-termer? The mostly-conservative voters couldn't forgive him for joining a 1992 court battle challenging a citizen term limits initiative, ramming through President Clinton's gun-control-heavy crime billand hawking the Clinton health care plan.Post your opinion to theElection '94bulletin board
...League Player of the Week was Penn's Abby Herbins, whose overtime goal against Brown sunk the Bruins closer to the bottom of the rankings, or The Yale Zone. Cornell forward Cari Hills got the Rookie of the Week for the third time this year and the second week...
While Harvard College was recently named the best university in America for the fifth year in a row, the Harvard Business School (HBS) has sunk to its lowest rank ever: fifth...
...wasn't my trashing of the team's defense in the loss. And no, it wasn't my comment about old men smoking pipes as the Titanic sunk...