Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hatcher, a five-term mayor of Gary, Indiana, will be leading a study group called "Politics of Black America: The Jackson Campaign and Beyond," in which he will be tracing the rise of Blacks in American politics...
...important issue, but he is wrong to talk as if all mergers and acquisitions are equally bad. Friendly combinations may improve U.S. competitiveness. The more disturbing deals are the hundreds of hostile takeovers carried out by raiders financed with junk bonds. No wonder corporate executives focus on short-term profits and their companies' stock prices if they constantly have to look over their shoulders for a raider. Even worse, hostile takeovers often saddle the target companies with huge debts that make them weaker than they were before the raid. The solution is not to ban all hostile takeovers, which would...
...flood the world with condoms," said McNamara, explaining that stemming the continent's population explosion alone would not be enough. "Africa needs political scientists devoted to developing long-term programs...
...other end of the scale from the large theaters is the Lyric Stage (54 Charles Street, 742-8703). The small theater seats 114 people and it likes to term itself as "the best little intimate theater in Boston...
GROWING up in the Boston area, I always heard wild things about the Combat Zone. When I first learned of the term "combat zone" around age 5, I believed it to be a local version of West Beirut, with kaffeyedguerrillas running around throwing hand grenades and machine-gunning people...