Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Incidentally, both coaches rode the refs so hard during the first half of the Lafayette contest that official Fran Foley was heard to wonder at halftime, "Are we really as bad as the benches seem to think...
...wonder why the staff does this work. People who are in what we call the helping professions are curious. I think they may feel something missing in their lives. There can be a lot of ego in this profession, a lot of vicarious fulfillment. One wants to see oneself as a good and giving person. There is nothing wrong with that, but it can't be the only goal. The ultimate goal must be a change in the system in which both the giver and the taker live. Life is made better generally. I bet if you had time...
...wonder then that Fleet Street's proprietors are trying to pare expenses by modernizing plants and cutting work forces. One owner whose efforts foundered is Lord Hartwell, whose family has run the Daily Telegraph (circ. 1.2 million) since 1928. In June Hartwell assembled a $156 million package to pay for both modern printing plants and severance for hundreds of his workers. Faced with a money squeeze this month, Hartwell sold a 35% stake to Hollinger Argus, Ltd., a Toronto-based mining firm owned mostly by Conrad Black, a Canadian tycoon whose holdings range from radio stations to supermarkets. Black...
Some people might wonder what Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal were doing out there on a Chicago street, armed and pantless. But Windy City residents can be a blase lot. Says Crystal: "There was a little old lady standing next to Hines, and she says, 'Excuse me, can I get by?' She didn't even notice that we were in our underwear and had guns!" So what did Hines do? Like a good Boy Scout, he stopped and escorted her across the street. Maybe she just assumed they were making a movie--which, of course, they were, playing a couple...
Mergers have become such a happening in America that they are trendy grist for late-night comedy--never mind that a lot of folks do not find them very funny. But the public has every reason to wonder just what is going on, as dozens of the country's biggest businesses woo, wrangle and battle for one another in the strongest outbreak of the urge to merge in U.S. history. Is the current rash of mergers good for American business? For stockholders? For the country? And just how far can it go before it goes...