Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Midway's regular service, which is aimed at business travelers. The acquisition, expected to cost Midway about $7 million, will allow the carrier to expand into Florida and take over the Caribbean routes that Air Florida served. Provided the plan receives court and regulatory approval, Midway Chairman Arthur Bass predicts that the buy-out will enable his company to double its revenues...
...mate first by Gerald Ford and then by Reagan. "Dreadful" was the way he described the experiences to TIME editors in Dallas last week. Said Baker: "We gave them ten years of income tax returns, personal worth statements, personal history, medical records and incredible amounts of evidence. I paid Arthur Andersen [a major accounting firm] almost $10,000 to get that financial stuff up. It was gone over with a fine-tooth comb. We had follow-up questions for weeks and written explanations of particular transactions. Both Ford and Reagan did that...
...purchase price as $90,311, which was accurate enough ($87,750 plus $2,561 in closing costs). But they said the building was sold for $96,500, for a capital gain of only $6,189. This ignored the fact that Lerman had assumed her $62,300 mortgage. Accountants from Arthur Young & Co., recently hired by Ferraro to review her finances, discovered the omission almost at once. It meant that Ferraro had to pay an additional tax of $29,709, plus $23,750 for ive years' interest. She wrote out the $53,459 check last week, adding wryly...
...unscientific, for instance-addiction to them is a way to avoid human emotion. Jarish, 12, is a loner who relentlessly plays video games because, unlike people, they obey strict rules. "You walk out of the arcade," he says, "and it's ... nothing that you can control." Arthur, 34, bought a computer to speed up his architectural business, but spends hours at the console, "poking" and "peeking" into programs, an experience he likens to a sexual kick. Says he: "Sometimes I feel guilty when I do it for too long...
...STANLEY A Karnow '47, the old George Santayana quote, "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it," rings only partly true Arthur Schlesinger Jr. '38's line is equally true he says that "Those who remember history are condemned to repeat...