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...merger whirlwind started blowing once again last week, into every corner of the economy. Chrysler's agreement to buy AMC was only the most stunning of a series of takeover bids and pacts that swept through the boardrooms of airline companies, book publishers, casino operators, shoemakers and retailers. Says Thom Brown, chief of investment policy at Butcher & Singer, a Philadelphia-based investment-banking firm: "There are so many deals in the works that it's hard to keep a cap on them...
...Davenport, Iowa, Mayor Thom Hart held a cookout at his house: pork sandwiches, fruit and five different kinds of potato salad. During a press conference on the front lawn, Grechko started taking pictures of all the cameras that were focusing on him. Neighbors came by, and everyone had a good time. A young guy, in old jeans, a T shirt and long dark hair, was impressed. "It's like a rock concert," he said, which it wasn't. "You can feel the good vibes," which you could...
...goal by Thom Germano in the game's final minute iced the game for the Pioneers, who had taken two previous two-goal leads, only to see them both disappear in the midst of Harvard rallies...
...Friday vote on both a Republican version of the amendment and a hastily drawn Democratic substitute. Reagan assailed this substitute as a "sham," and so it was. Its purpose was to enable some Democrats to claim that they had indeed voted for a balanced budget. Said New York Democrat Thom as Downey: "It's all a charade...
...Azuma's." None of these places mean anything to readers who do not know New York City, and few New Yorkers would claim these spots as immortal landscapes of their city. WRVR has already been taken off the air. This, and frequent references to Bally shoes, Vera sheets. Thom McAn and Billy Blass, date the novel and make the characters seem affected, label-crazy people. Their present is stilted. Unfortunately, even the folkloric tropics suffer under the slaps of some heavy-handed metaphors, particularly the poor fishes who are made to listen to "the beating of hooves" which belong...