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...district's 13 elementary schools, test scores showed the immigrant children were not keeping up with their U.S.-born peers. Two years ago, Lincoln Elementary School had a Hmong population of 70%. The situation prompted the school board to adopt a controversial busing plan in which six schools would swap about half their children. The restructuring, supported by 87% of teachers, was to boost academic achievement and bring together a community that was becoming more and more polarized by race...
...first by insisting that Time Warner do away with its "poison pill" takeover defense, then by demanding seats on the board--until he had squeezed all the juice he could from the deal. "The speculation is laughable," he says. Malone still came up with a great package: He'll swap tbs stock for Time Warner stock (his share of the total: about 9%) at a higher exchange rate than most other investors and sign a new "carriage agreement" with Time Warner that locks in discount programming for his cable system through...
...being Robin Hoods in reverse. Having whacked school lunch programs and the working poor, they have to be careful about stroking the FORTUNE 500 too enthusiastically. Freshman Representative Mark Souder returned to Washington bearing the news that in his Indiana district voters were "starting to wonder, Did we swap Big Labor and Big Government for Big Business? New suits, maybe...
...news is my company's a whole lot more valuable because the major players need content even more." Last week, too, there were rumors that Turner may be trying to regain greater control of his company. The speculation was that Turner, together with Bronfman, was hatching a deal to swap Bronfman's Time Warner shares for Time Warner's holdings in Turner Broadcasting...
...person truly interested in the White House could take a walk in an expanded park. "The only people who would be inconvenienced would be those who want to drive by and see the White House out of their car window," Seale declared last week. "That seems like a logical swap...