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...systems. After the merger, Time Warner will serve 5.6 million customers, or 12% of U.S. households with cable. The new operation will still be smaller than the largest cable company, Tele-Communications, which serves 24% of the industry's customers. Experts say that unless President Bush takes a tougher antitrust stance than the Reagan Administration did, the Government is not likely to block a Time-Warner merger...
...Jalalabad falls, can Kabul be far behind?" say the Afghans. But for the mujahedin forces, capturing Afghanistan's third largest city is proving tougher than expected. Last week the rebels confidently predicted they would take Jalalabad within a week. But after five days of fierce fighting, the Soviet-backed Kabul regime was showing no sign of surrendering. A victory for the rebels would give them an important boost in political credibility. On the other hand, if government forces can hold Jalalabad, they will deal a serious psychological blow to their enemies...
...going to be a tougher season than a lot of us expected," Mulvehal said. "It's not going to be a total walk-away. Since we lost to William & Mary, all of the matches are important the rest...
...period when total college enrollment grew by more than a million and the proportion of black students who finished high school climbed from 68% to 76%. Possible explanations include the shift from grants to loans in federal aid for higher education, a lack of aggressive recruitment by colleges and tougher entrance requirements...
Union leaders long have said they believe Lorenzo wants to break them and tear Eastern apart. But Lorenzo would have a tougher time imposing lower wages at Eastern than he did when he reorganized Continental in 1983. Congress amended bankruptcy law in 1984 to require bankrupt companies to negotiate with unions and prove economic necessity before abrogating contracts...