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...running to millions of dollars, guaranteed in a hostile takeover. Now, more and more firms are offering similar, if more modest, payoffs to their rank and file who might lose their jobs in a takeover. Dubbed "tin parachutes," the payments sometimes reach 250% of an employee's annual salary. Webb Bassick, a partner at Hewitt Associates, a consulting firm, estimates that as many as 15% of all large public companies have such packages. Among them are Mobil, America West Airlines and Diamond Shamrock, an oil conglomerate. Says Bassick: "It's refreshing to see companies looking at their moral obligation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMPENSATION: Tin Parachutes For Little Folk | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

DARTMOUTH (69): Nancy Fitz 2-0--4; Bev Ibgerdon 5-0--10; Liz Walter 6-2--14; Ute Bowman 1-0--2; Sophia Neely 6-0--12; Marie Polakowski 5-0--10; Patty Webb 2-0--4; Allison Greene 3-4--10; Lee Hart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For the Record... | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...frame will put the cargo over the weight limit. There are MTV-style music videos, a game show called But Who's Counting?, and a funny continuing feature entitled Mathnet, in which a pair of mathematician-sleuths do a dead-on, deadpan parody of the old Jack Webb Dragnet series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Multiple Fun on Square One | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...Frances Webb '60, secretary of the RadcliffeAlumnae Association and a member of the Plant andGarden Society agreed that, "the Yard is a spacethat uplifts the spirit and involes a sense ofwhat is Harvard. It needs no embellishment, butsimplicity. We should emphasize restraint...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Pump Design Approval Hits Snag in Commission | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

Fred and Ginger they're not. On his best behavior, Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) pukes for pleasure, throws darts at idlers and smashes his head against the concrete walls of propriety. Then he meets Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb), a pug- faced groupie from a Philadelphia suburb, and starts living up to his name. As the defiantly incompetent bass player for the Sex Pistols, Sid became the working-class hero and elitists' toy of pre-Thatcher Britain. To the romanticizers of punk anarchy, Sid's abuse of his body, his buddies and his music gave evidence of a rock Rimbaud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Weird Trios and Fun Couples | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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