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...company's annual meeting, they expected a lively session. Only one day before, Gannett had agreed to buy Louisville's Pulitzer Prize-winning Courier-Journal and Times for about $300 million, outbidding both the Washington Post Co. and Chicago's Tribune Co. Within the past year, the Arlington, Va.-based media giant had acquired two other major newspaper companies that had come up for sale: the Detroit News and the Des Moines Register (total price: $917 million). "It's a little like winning the Triple Crown," Gannett Chairman Allen Neuharth had declared after the Louisville deal...
George Johnson, the no-nonsense president who has presided over the dynamic emergence of George Mason University, ten miles across the Potomac from Washington, unblushingly describes his public university's mission. "We are entrepreneurial," he says, "responding to the needs of our community." That community is rich Fairfax County, Va., one of the nation's fast-growing areas, loaded with high-tech corporations employing professionals who demand continuing education. "We have CEOs who want doctorates in economics," says Johnson. "Their wives are considering going to law school...
...Thursday, five democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Senate Minority leader Robert C. Byrd (D-Va.), called on Meese to consider appointing an independent counsel to investigate Deaver's lobbying, an aide to Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) said Thursday night...
...accusations at the likes of White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan (for "drug-money laundering" while head of Merrill Lynch), former Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy (for financing the Weatherman radicals in the late 1960s), and even one Agnes Harrison, 60, a former president of the Leesburg, Va., garden club (for belonging to a "highly organized nest" of Communist fellow travelers...
...underline the law's value, civil RICO proponents point to cases like that of Barney and Donna Millsaps. Six years ago, a door-to-door salesman talked them into adding a room to their home in Norfolk, Va., assuring them loan payments would amount to no more than $50 a month. Instead, they wound up with a second mortgage and monthly payments of $148 for 15 years, a burden that strained their modest income until, less than a year later, they had lost their house. But the Millsapses along with eight other families that were hustled in the same scheme...