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...Rupert Murdoch divide the Ziff-Davis publications
When William Ziff put 24 profitable periodicals on the block last month, there was no shortage of eager bidders. Ziff-Davis, a subsidiary of the Ziff Corp., was offering for sale twelve consumer magazines and twelve technical and travel publications, most of them leaders in their markets. Among those interested were the New York Times Co., Time Inc., Hearst, CBS and ABC. The massive sell-off was accomplished in just 24 hours last week, when CBS purchased the consumer group for $362.5 million, and Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch bought the trade publications for $350 million. Although the cash...
...Apple Macintosh computers. "I expect 50 more to fold before the year is over." Bunnell is a veteran of this treacherous terrain. One morning in 1982 he walked into his San Francisco offices only to discover that his company had been bought out over the weekend by publishing giant Ziff-Davis...
Neither Edward Sylvester and Lynn Klotz, authors of The Gene Age, nor Israel Rosenfield, Edward Ziff, and Borin Van Loon, authors of DNA for Beginners, would necessarily recognize their kin-ship to populist mayor Vellucci. They have adapted to very different environments from Vellucci and from each other: The Gene Age is a clone from the hard-driving, earnest, and competent American biotechnology industry, while DNA for Beginners evolved from the genial and sardonic humor of the English academic New Left...
Decent Lives. Still, there has been progress in fighting the disease. Says Dr. Morris Ziff, of the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas: "Most lupus victims can now expect to live reasonably decent lives." One reason: improved blood tests are letting doctors diagnose lupus earlier than ever. (As in Joan's case, the Wasserman test often turns up lupus quite accidentally.) Another reason: prompt detection has been accompanied by introduction of more effective treatments...