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...Hispanics for most of the remainder. If two or more white contenders carve up the white vote, blacks -- voting as a bloc -- have the numerical strength to elect a mayor on their own. That is what happened in 1983, when Washington narrowly won the Democratic nomination in a three-way primary race against former Mayor Jane Byrne and Cook County Prosecutor Richard M. Daley, son of the legendary boss. Chastened, Washington's white opponents are now trying to unite behind a single challenger. Says Chicago Political Scientist Paul Green: "The name of the game is to get Harold Washington...
Columbia went on to snag the Ivy title while Harvard (9-2 overall, 3-2 Ivy) ended in a three-way tie for second place with Penn and Yale...
...Harvard's victory caused a three-way tie (at 1-1 apiece) in the mythical Big Three championship (Harvard, Yale and Princeton), the first such deadlock since...
...Avenue was deafening last spring when the two largest advertising mergers in history were announced within two weeks of each other. The power of the newly created superagencies and the vast riches that changed hands in the transactions stunned the ad industry for weeks. The first jolt was the three-way agreement in April to merge the sixth largest U.S. agency, BBDO International, with Doyle Dane Bernbach Group (No. 12) and Needham Harper Worldwide (No. 16). Their combined annual billings of $5 billion made the new agency, now called Omnicom Group, the world's biggest -- for a moment anyway...
...daunting array of problems faces him. The CBS Evening News, once the network ratings leader, is now in a tense three-way race, and the low-rated Morning News is still a major trouble spot (it will be transmuted in January into a pair of 90-minute broadcasts, one of them produced by the entertainment division and coanchored by Actress Mariette Hartley). Meanwhile, the news division, which has been forced to eliminate 215 jobs in the past 14 months, will have to keep its belt tightened. But Stringer says no more layoffs are planned, and for now at least...