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Who Benefits from Corporate Mergers?

Journalist Isadore Barmash joins Fresh Air to explain the process of leveraged buyouts and hostile takeovers of corporations, and how these affect employees, customers, and shareholders. His new book, Macy's for Sale, offers a case study.

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Other segments from the episode on January 19, 1989

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, January 19, 1989: Interview with Isadore Barmash; Review of Lou Reed's album "New York"; Interview with Mark Singer; Review of the film "The Dressmaker."
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New Yorker Writer Mark Singer

Oklahoma-born Singer writes the Talk of the Town feature for the magazine, as well as profiles of ordinary people in New York. A new book, Mr. Personality, collects the best of his New Yorker pieces.

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An English Examination of Small Events

Film critic Stephen Schiff says that the World War II-themed The Dressmaker masterfully follows in the European tradition of what he calls "intimate filmmaking" -- something no American director has yet been able to replicate.

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