CORPORATIONS
Addresses
American Business Presence in South Africa—The Caterpillar View, Byron De Haan, 31998 [19OC]
Policy Implications of the Stock Market Crash of 1987: Representative Markey, 3816 [14MR]
Amendments
Securities: disclosures relative to accumulations of stock and tender offers (S. 1323), 14594-14596 [15JN], 14988 [16JN], 15101, 15142 [17JN], 15195, 15219 [20JN], 15392 [21JN]
South Africa: prohibit investments (H.R. 1580), 22175, 22184, 22186 [11AU]
Analyses
Restoration of Capital Gains Preference Based on Period Capital Asset Held, 67 [25JA]
Securities Arbitration Reform Act (H.R. 4960), 16600-16602 [30JN]
Tax Indexing of Capital Gains: Senator Armstrong, 6839 [14AP]
Articles and editorials
All Dressed Up and No Place To Go?, 28287 [5OC]
Anti-Apartheid or Pro-Soviet? Sanctions Raise U.S. Dependence on U.S.S.R. for Strategic Minerals, 6499 [12AP]
Anti-Takeover Bill Would Shift Balance of Power, 15191 [20JN]
Anti-Takeover-Anti-Competitiveness, 9914 [4MY]
Area Residents Join Coalition to ``Stop Raid'', 11949 [23MY]
Back to Corporate Payoffs Abroad, 5253 [25MR]
Basic—Protection for Investors, 12041 [24MY]
Battle of the Banks, 1896 [22FE]
Bill Would Curb Foreign Companies in U.S. Takeovers, 5967 [30MR]
Blacks Do Back Sanctions Warns Survey, 22214 [11AU]
Bull Durham—Phelps Dodge, 8429-8430 [21AP]
Capital Debate, 6955 [14AP]
Capital Gains Tax Rate Generates Hot Arguments, 18259 [13JY]
Capital Idea, 9917 [4MY]
Charade—Corporate Raiders Can't Continue Unchecked, 11949 [23MY]
Chilling Merger Fever, 12041 [24MY]
Community Chic, 15188 [20JN]
Comparable Worth, 9908 [4MY]
Congress To Begin Overdue Look at Hostile Corporate Raiders, 11948 [23MY]
Corporate Prenatal-Care Plans Multiply, Benefiting Both Mothers and Employers, 17834 [12JY]
Corporate Raids Hurt Economy, 12783 [27MY]
Corporate Socialism, 9915 [4MY]
Corporations Are Not Persons, 9909 [4MY]
Don't Succumb to Takeover Fears, 15188 [20JN]
Downside of Hostile Takeovers, 12042 [24MY]
ESOP Bill May Backfire, 15190 [20JN]
Essential Next Step in Tax Reform, 9405 [28AP]
Fallacy of Laws That Stop Takeovers, 15186 [20JN]
Fencing in Corporate Raiders, 12043 [24MY]
Fighting Corporate Raiders, 11948 [23MY]
Financing the Future—Don't Write Off Junk Bonds, 17317 [8JY]
Firm Seizes Opportunity for Growth, 19438 [28JY]
Further Crashology, 11424 [18MY]
Gangbusters—Laws Should Get Tougher With Corporate Raiders, 12042 [24MY]
Ghastly Antitakeover Idea, 15194 [20JN]
Golden Parachutes—Despite Criticism, the Lucrative Severance Payments Have Taken Hold in California's Corporate Hierarchy, 15321 [21JN]
Hardly Anyone Seems To Understand Capital Gains, 23435, 23440 [12SE]
How Some Firms Become Foreign Success Stories—Report Credits Persistence, Creation of Niche Markets, 8890 [27AP]
How to Fix the Capital Gains Mess, 21975 [11AU]
In Defense of Takeovers, 15187 [20JN]
In Your Hands, 6510 [12AP]
Institutional ``Investor'' or ``Speculator''?, 16082 [28JN]
Japan's Clout in the United States—It's Translating Economic Might Into Influence, 28864-28868 [6OC]
KC Southern Is Too Good To Lose, 11948 [23MY]
Law To Curb the ``Urge to Merge'', 12043 [24MY]
Long-Term Hindsight, 15190 [20JN]
Main St. versus Wall St., 12783 [27MY]
Making it Right the First Time, 11055 [13MY]
Merger Mania—Don't Blame Raiders for Systemwide Abuses, 15185 [20JN]
Money Birds of Prey, 11949 [23MY]
Money Talks—How Foreign Firms Buy U.S. Clout, 28868 [6OC]
Monster That's Eating Wall Street, 5354 [28MR]
More or Less American Multinational Companies, 16758 [6JY]
More States Are Resorting to Legislation To Shoot Down Corporate Raiders, 15193 [20JN]
No, Cut the Capital Gains Tax, 6313 [11AP]
Not a Rich Man's Tax Break, 32723 [10NO]
Notice Where Notice Is Due, 11354 [17MY]
Outside Directors Finally Given a Say in Corporate Giving, 11671 [19MY]
Peace Corps' New Frontier, 32498 [21OC]
Pentagon Offices Searched—Firms, Consultants Targeted in Alleged Procurement Fraud, 14574 [15JN]
Proxmire's Doubletalk on Takeovers, 15183 [20JN]
Raiding Party, 11950 [23MY]
Raw Mineral Cartel Threat Is Buncombe From Botha, 22217 [11AU]
Recipe for a Management Autocracy, 15328 [21JN]
Reforming the Bank Laws, 1896 [22FE]
Regulating Corporate Raiders, 12042 [24MY]
Rules of Corporate Combat, 12041 [24MY]
Scandal of Sanctions, 6489 [12AP]
SEC Draws Fire for Handling of Bribery Charges Against Ashland Oil After Private Lawsuits Succeed, 18557 [25JY]
Senate Showdown Expected Over Shareholder Rights, 15181 [20JN]
Shielding Management, 15183 [20JN]
Slap in the Face for German Startups, 20863 [8AU]
Soak the Rich, Again, 13607 [7JN]
Some Commonsense Tinkering Might Be All That's Needed, 15189 [20JN]
Squeeze Pretoria, 22216 [11AU], 25245 [23SE]
Still the Best Game in Town, 15319 [21JN]
Takeover Fever Strikes Here—No Wisconsin Firm Is Immune From Attack, 21799, 21800 [11AU]
Takeover Trend Helps Push Corporate Debt and Defaults Upward, 5835 [30MR]
Takeover—A Positive Force, 15194 [20JN]
Takeovers Rooted in Fear, 15184 [20JN]
Takeovers—Measure Should Restore Stability, 12043 [24MY]
There's No Such Thing as Fair Trade—But We Can Do Something About It, 83 [25JA]
$3.8 Billion Buyout Set for Ward—Deal To End Mobil's Troubled Move Into Retailing Business, 3531 [8MR]
We Can Stabilize Market, Raise Revenue, 6795 [13AP]
Wedtech Officials' Raids on Its Treasury Outlined, 16070 [27JN]
What America Makes Best, 11052 [13MY]
What Stock Crash? Investors Dominate List of Top Earners, 15121 [17JN]
White House Opposes Takeover Bills, Sprinkel Tells Senate Banking Panel, 15187 [20JN]
Why High Rates Prove Foolish, 17264 [7JY]
Why Takeovers Are Taking Off Again, 6273 [11AP]
Windfall Profit Tax Should Be Repealed, 18637 [25JY]
Workers Sue Would-Be Raider Over Lost Jobs, 19567 [28JY]
Wrong Villains on Wall Street—Quick Fixes Distract From Real Reforms, 11423 [18MY]
Bills and resolutions
Bank Holding Company Act: limitations on acquisitions by certain companies owning banks (see S. 2288)
Economic Development Act: enact (see H.R. 3968)
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act: amend to remove ownership restrictions placed on nonvoting preferred stock of the corporation (see H.R. 4955)
Foreign Agents Registration Act: strengthen requirements (see S. 2866)
IRS: filing information returns regarding interest, dividends, royalties and other payments made to corporations (see H.R. 4528)
Merger and Acquisition Worker Notification Act: enact (see S. 2556)
Rural areas: acquisition by municipal corporations of rural water systems through eminent domain (see S. 2891)
SEC: study of proxy contests as a vehicle for corporate takeover activity (see S. 2410)
South Africa: ban loans and investments by U.S. corporations (see H.R. 5175)
Taxation: accumulated earnings tax on corporation shareholders (see H.R. 5367)
———capital gains (see S. 2589; H.R. 5044)
———corporations engaged in substantial manufacturing operations in certain foreign countries are not be treated as passive foreign investment companies (see H.R. 5429)
———eliminate tax credits from the passive activity rules and modify the business credit limitation provisions (see S. 2115; H.R. 4048)
———settlement fund for companies in bankruptcy proceedings (see H.R. 3922)
———terminate sale of tax benefits by Alaska Native corporations (see H.R. 4475)
———treat certain meals provided by employers as fringe benefits (see S. 2112)
Trademark Act: revise registration of trademarks (see H.R. 5372)
Books
``Japanese Conspiracy,'' Marvin Wolf, 6765 [13AP]
Bulletins
Japanese Technical Literature Bulletin: Dept. of Commerce, 24849 [22SE]
Chronologies
Corporate literacy class, 15412 [21JN]
Court decisions
GAF Corp. v. Union Carbide Corp., 15333 [21JN]
Indiana takeover statute: Supreme Court, 1791 [18FE]
Moran v. Household International, Inc., 15333 [21JN]
Documents
Amendment to section 17A of Securities Exchange Act, 32548 [21OC]
Explanations
Corporate Estimated Tax Provision: Joint Economic Committee, 5538 [29MR]
Modifications to Senate Committee on Finance amendment to Tax Reform Act (S. 2238), 29732-29734 [11OC]
History
Tender Offer Disclosure and Fairness Act (S. 1323), 15203 [20JN]
Letters
Ban loans and investments in South Africa: Hap Gilliland, 20005 [2AU]
Capital gains: Richard W. Rahn, 4586 [21MR]
Disclosures relative to accumulations of stock and tender offers: California Public Employees' Retirement System, 15330 [21JN]
———Paul F. Quirk, Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, 15332 [21JN]
———Boris Kramich, 15332 [21JN]
———Ed Fleming, State Association of Retirement Board Members, 15331 [21JN]
———Johnnie C. Rogers, Colorado Fire and Police Pension Association, 15332 [21JN]
———Paul R. Ray, 15331 [21JN]
———R.E. Whiteside, 15332 [21JN]
———Robert H. Dunphy, 15332 [21JN]
———Robert J. Scott, Public Employees' Retirement Association of Colorado, 15331 [21JN]
Economic sanctions against South Africa: B.E. Lekganyane, 20002 [2AU]
Insider trading regulations: M. Danny Wall, 32548 [21OC]
International trade strategy: Arthur Levitt, Jr. and William Lilley III, 8890 [27AP]
Massachusetts Industrial Services Program: Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts, 13700 [8JN]
———Patricia Hanratty, 13701 [8JN]
Reversion of pension assets: Ann McLaughlin, Sec. of Labor, 18664 [26JY]
Sanctions against South Africa: Namibian Students' Association, 20337 [3AU]
Taxation of intercorporate dividends: several business organizations, 28843 [6OC], 31628 [18OC]
Tender Offer Disclosure and Fairness Act: sundry associations, 15207, 15208 [20JN]
U.S. manufacturers excluded from foreign markets: Richard N. Olmstead, 83 [25JA]
Lists
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. top stockholders: American Banker, 18463 [14JY]
Highest paid executives at publicly held thrifts: American Banker (publication), 18463 [14JY]
Individual shareowners of public corporations, 14596 [15JN]
States' takeover statutes, 14596 [15JN]
Takeover activities in several States, 14579-14580 [15JN]
Total individual shareowners of public corporations, 1791 [18FE]
Memorials of legislature
Pennsylvania, 15286 [20JN], 18237 [13JY]
Motions
South Africa: prohibit investments (H.R. 1580), recommit, 22218 [11AU]
Rebuttal
Sanctions against South Africa under H.R. 1580, 22212-22218 [11AU]
Remarks in House
Bank Holding Company Act: limitations on acquisitions by certain companies owning banks (H.R. 4380), 6814 [14AP]
Corporate takeovers: protection of public interest and investors, 1459 [16FE]
Economic Development Act: enact (H.R. 3968), 1695 [18FE]
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.: sale of stocks, 18463 [14JY]
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Act: amend to remove ownership restrictions placed on nonvoting preferred stock of the corporation (H.R. 4955), 16622 [30JN], 18550 [14JY]
Foreign investments: strengthen disclosure requirements, 79 [25JA]
International corporations: competitive disadvantages due to tax laws, 2506 [25FE]
Investment tax credit: reinstatement and restrictions (H.R. 943), 9821 [4MY]
Ireland, Northern: U.S. corporate guidelines on equal employment (H.R. 722), 695 [2FE]
IRS: filing information returns regarding interest, dividends, royalties and other payments made to corporations (H.R. 4528), 9824 [4MY]
Japan: foreign trade practices, 6765-6766 [13AP]
———lobbying activities, 21726 [10AU]
———outright purchase of U.S. industries, 2505 [25FE]
Korea, Republic of: policy towards U.S., 28252 [4OC]
Monopoly: antitakeover laws, 9914 [4MY]
Price fixing: evidentiary standards for Federal civil antitrust claims (H.R. 585), 3824 [14MR]
Puerto Rico: corporate citizenship, 1951 [22FE]
Rochester Women's Network: tribute, 20349 [3AU]
Securities: strategic block investing, 8400 [21AP]
Securities Arbitration Reform Act: enact (H.R. 4960), 16600, 16606 [30JN]
Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc.: attempted takeover of Koppers Co., Inc., 6983 [14AP]
South Africa: ban loans and investments by U.S. corporations, 16626 [6JY], 20002 [2AU], 31145, 31147 [14OC]
———prohibit investments (H.R. 1580), 6804 [13AP], 22058 [11AU], 22114 [7SE], 22118 [11AU], 22190, 22221, 22394 [11AU], 31998 [19OC], 32181 [20OC]
———trade sanctions, 6489, 6499, 6510 [12AP], 14161 [10JN], 30454 [13OC]
Stock market: anniversary of crash, 31794 [19OC], 31992 [19OC]
Taxation: accumulated earnings tax on corporation shareholders (H.R. 5367), 25270 [23SE]
———amend certain laws (H.R. 111), 6803 [13AP]
———capital gains, 66 [25JA], 450 [28JA], 6795 [13AP], 9917 [4MY], 22770 [7SE]
———capital gains (H.R. 5044), 18456 [14JY]
———corporate rate, 31979 [19OC]
———corporations engaged in substantial manufacturing operations in certain foreign countries are not to be treated as passive foreign investment companies (H.R. 5429), 27291 [30SE], 27348 [30SE]
———eliminate tax credits from the passive activity rules and modify the business credit limitation provisions (H.R. 4048), 2765 [1MR]
———terminate sale of tax benefits by Alaska Native corporations (H.R. 4475), 9143 [27AP]
Toledo, OH: Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. anniversary, 1194 [4FE]
Wedtech Corp.: corporate fraud, 16070 [27JN]
Remarks in Senate
Airline mergers: protection of labor, 17629 [12JY]
Bank Holding Company Act: limitations on acquisitions by certain companies owning banks (S. 2288), 6942-6943 [14AP]
Capital gains: tax indexing, 18259 [13JY], 21975 [11AU]
———tax rates, 6313 [11AP], 6837-6850, 6955 [14AP], 9405, 9424 [28AP], 13606 [7JN], 17264 [7JY], 23434, 23439 [12SE], 32588 [21OC], 32723 [10NO]
———tax rates (S. 2589), 16362 [29JN]
Congress: action on stock market volatility, 8451 [22AP]
Corporate takeovers: impact on companies, 5835 [30MR], 5498 [29MR]
———effects, 21798 [11AU]
———protection of public interest and investors, 11948 [23MY], 12041 [24MY]
———regulate, 6272 [11AP]
Delaware: antitakeover legislation, 1790 [18FE]
Employee Ownership Week: observance, 29583 [7OC]
Foreign Agents Registration Act: strengthen requirements (S. 2866), 28862 [6OC]
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: effect of trade legislation, 15912 [24JN]
———effect on trade legislation, 15912 [24JN]
———enforcement of antibribery laws, 18556 [25JY]
———reinstate in provisions of trade legislation, 18275 [14JY]
Foreign countries: payoffs to, 5252 [25MR]
Foreign languages: computer bank to assist U.S. corporations in finding skilled personnel, 18731 [26JY]
Group Financial Partners, Inc.: tribute, 19437 [28JY]
H.B. Fuller Co.: tribute, 11671 [19MY]
Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Enforcement Act: enact (H.R. 5133), 32545-32549 [21OC]
Investments: international transactions, 25619 [27SE]
———Working Group on Financial Markets report on stock market crash, 11422 [18MY]
Merger and Acquisition Worker Notification Act: enact (S. 2556), 15568 [22JN]
Olin Corp.: tax relief, 29772 [11OC]
Pensions: asset reversions, 18661-18664 [26JY]
Rural areas: acquisition by municipal corporations of rural water systems through eminent domain (S. 2891), 30322 [13OC]
SEC: study of proxy contests as a vehicle for corporate takeover activity (S. 2410), 11490, 11499 [18MY]
Securities: disclosures of accumulations of stock and tender offers (S. 1323), 12289 [25MY], 14596 [15JN], 14861 [16JN], 15094-15117, 15120, 15159 [17JN], 15174, 15200-15208 [20JN], 15309, 15316 [21JN], 20757 [8AU]
———disclosures of accumulations of stock and tender offers (S. 1323), motion to proceed to consideration, 14860 [16JN]
———disclosures of accumulations of stock and tender offers (S. 1323), point of order, 15172 [20JN]
———disclosures of accumulations of stock and tender offers (S. 1323), unanimous-consent agreement, 14577 [15JN]
———international fairness in underwriting and distribution (S. 2922), 32554 [21OC]
———limit speculative investments, 16082 [28JN]
———stock market crash, 14217 [13JN]
South Africa: prohibit investments (H.R. 1580), 22585 [7SE]
———prohibit investments (S. 556), 14995 [16JN]
States: antitakeover legislation, 2397 [23FE]
Steiger, William A.: 1978 efforts to cut capital gains tax, 16733 [6JY]
Stock exchange: insider trading cases, 12289 [25MY]
———reform, 32608-32610 [21OC]
———response to hypothetical crash, 12566 [26MY]
Taxation: eliminate tax credits from the passive activity rules, and to modify the business credit limitation provisions (S. 2115), 2731 [1MR]
———excess profits tax on crude oil, 18637 [25JY]
———terminating the exclusion from gross income of citizens working abroad (S. 2125), 3165 [3MR]
———treat certain meals provided by employers as fringe benefits (S. 2112), 2727 [1MR]
U.S. Gypsum Co.: attempted takeover, 14122 [10JN]
Weirton Steel Co.: tribute, 4964 [27AP]
Reports
Product Liability—The Corporate Response: Nathan Weber, 5158-5163 [24MR]
Shareholders and Public Oppose Hostile Takeovers, 1459 [16FE]
Tender Offer Disclosure and Fairness Act (S. 1323): Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 15178, 15203 [20JN]
Reports filed
Prohibit Investments in South Africa (H.R. 1580), Consideration, Committee on Rules (H. Rept. 100-857) (H. Res. 519), 21722 [10AU]
Revise Registration of Trademarks: Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 5372) (H. Rept. 100-1028), 27984 [3OC]
Statements
Antibribery Law Relative to Foreign Corrupt Practices: Representative Rodino, 19922 [2AU]
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Philip Heymann, 19923 [2AU]
Tender Offer Disclosure and Fairness Act: President Reagan, 15200 [20JN]
Studies
Improvements Needed in the Administration of the Foreign Agents Registration Act: GAO, 28870 [6OC]
New York Regional Economic Development Partnership Program, 23868 [14SE]
Summaries
Interim Report of the Working Group on Financial Markets, 11423 [18MY]
Merger and Acquisition Worker Notification Act (S. 2556), 15570 [22JN]
SEC Study of Proxy Contests as a Vehicle for Corporate Takeover Activity (S. 2410), 11491 [18MY]
Tables
10 biggest golden parachutes, 15318 [21JN]
Testimonies
Bank Holding Companies: American Express Co., 6943 [14AP]
Texts of
H.R. 4475, terminate sale of tax benefits by Alaska Native corporations, 9143 [27AP]
H.R. 5044, taxation of capital gains, 18456 [14JY]
H.R. 5175, ban U.S. loans and investments in South Africa, 22169-22174 [11AU]
S. 1323, Tender Offer Disclosure and Fairness Act, 14861-14864 [16JN]
S. 2288, amend Bank Holding Company Act limitations on acquisitions by certain companies owning banks, 6943 [14AP]
S. 2556, Merger and Acquisition Worker Notification Act, 15569-15570 [22JN]
S. 2589, taxation of capital gains, 16362 [29JN]
S. 2866, strengthen requirements of Foreign Agents Registration Act, 28864 [6OC]