Word: wirth
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Colorado Democratic Rep. Tim Wirth '61 defeated Ken Kramer to retain the Democrats' seat. For governor, Democrat Roy Romer topped Republican Ted Strickland...
Republican Rep. Ken Kramer is in a dead heat with Democratic Rep. Tim Wirth to succeed Sen. Gary Hart, who is retiring to concentrate on gaining the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination...
Colorado Republican Ken Kramer, who is running for the Senate seat Gary Hart will vacate this year, normally votes with the President. But on the trade bill Kramer voted against Reagan. Joining him was Tim Wirth, the Democratic candidate for the Hart seat. Republican Congressman Henson Moore of Louisiana used to be an ardent free trader. But he is running against ! Democratic Congressman John Breaux for the Senate, and both voted for the bill...
...American boardrooms, courtrooms and legislatures. In 1985 companies were acquired, wholly or in part, at the frantic rate of eleven a day. When the dollar value of those deals is finally totted up, it is certain to surpass the record $125 billion reached in 1984. Says Democratic Representative Timothy Wirth, who chairs a House subcommittee that has been studying acquisitions: "These mergers and takeovers are having as profound an impact on the American economy as the advent of the great railroads, the airplane and the telephone...
Congress talks about curbing some of the merger activity, but it has not taken any action. While some 50 bills to regulate acquisitions were introduced in 1985, none has made it out of committee. Complains Wirth, who tried and failed a year ago to restrict some takeover practices: "The economic ideologues at the White House are dominating what debate there is within the Administration, and they believe the market can do no wrong...