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Word: aska (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aska International, the Tokyo art gallery that spent $25 million at the Dorrance sale, is controlled by Aichi Corp., a Tokyo firm that last September became one of the five largest shareholders of Christie's stock, with 6.4%. Aichi, in turn, is controlled by Yasumichi Morishita, a secretive businessman who got a one-year suspended sentence in Tokyo in 1986 for securities fraud. Morishita is reputedly worth a trillion yen ($7 billion), and may be planning a takeover of Christie's -- although it is unlikely that the Monopolies and Mergers Commission would approve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sold! The Art Market: Goes Crazy | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...times we have faculty as well asadmissions officers coming in to readapplications," Fitzsimmons said. "If a student hassent us some computer program or music tape, andwe want to know the quality of that sample, we aska professor to look at it. They include theirwritten opinions along with the other threereaders...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Admissions Process Is Diverse, Complex | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

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