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...celebrate his victory in the hostile takeover battle for Trans World Airlines in August 1985, corporate raider Carl Icahn donned a pilot's cap and uniform jacket and paraded triumphantly around his Manhattan office. The parade didn't last long. Plagued by labor strife, mounting losses and bruising competition, TWA became more of a financial straitjacket for the erstwhile wizard than the trophy he had envisioned. In recent years, as he struggled to keep the now bankrupt carrier aloft, Icahn groped for a graceful way to bail out. Despite near frantic efforts, he was unable to find a willing buyer...
...what of the Olympic opposition? The dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia has eviscerated the teams that won the gold and silver medals in Seoul in 1988. The best former Soviet players now wear the uniform of Lithuania. Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac led Yugoslavia to the silver medal at Seoul. This time, however, Yugoslavia as such has been banned from Barcelona. Petrovic, a New Jersey Net, will play for Croatia. Divac, a Los Angeles Laker and a Serb, will not be allowed to play. The Germans will be competitive; N.B.A. star Detlef Schrempf will make them...
Just as the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings made women recall their own tales of sexism, so has the Tailhook scandal made females in uniform question their handling of aberrant behavior in the past. One Air Force captain recalls overlooking a minor incident years back. The man got promoted and continued to bother other women. Now she thinks maybe she should have made a little noise. An Air Force staff sergeant recalls a military doctor who used to pat the buttocks and breasts of many female patients, regardless of their ailment. As for the men, they stand divided. One Navy...
...seconds after Mohammed Boudiaf spoke the words "We are all going to die," an assassin in uniform raised his submachine gun and fired, killing the 73-year-old Algerian head of state. Boudiaf may have thought he was merely making a philosophical point in his address to a crowd at a cultural center in the Mediterranean port city of Annaba. It was his first trip outside Algiers since he took office after a military coup in January. In the confusion and panic that followed, 41 other people were wounded by gunfire and grenades...
Under current rules, it's all but impossible to figure how much corporations actually pay their top executives. To take the mystery out of proxy statements, the SEC proposes that companies use uniform tables to show senior executives' compensation and illustrate more clearly how the corporation is performing compared with similar firms. The SEC also wants it spelled out how the directors determined the salary. The proposals could be adopted by the 1993 proxy season...