Word: assets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jungle) vein. Its basic irony derives from the fact that the Prizzi hoods, colorfully impersonated by such welcome old pros as William Hickey, Robert Loggia and Lee Richardson, represent, despite their line of work, traditional values. They take the long, institutional view of their enterprise, understanding that its greatest asset is its reputation for squaring accounts with rigorous fairness. To preserve it, they are willing to sacrifice short-term advantage. Irene, in contrast, represents the M.B.A. mentality, feminist division. She wants each new balance sheet to improve on the last, and will cut dangerous corners to attain that...
...addition to this questionable asset, the limo has also allowed them to pull some gags. For the premier of the latest Bond thriller, "A View to a Kill," they asked the manager of the Sack Cheri to set aside some seats for the film's author and his party. Elvy pretended to be the chauffeur while a friend from M.I.T. pretended to be the author. When they arrived, the manager eagerly shook the alleged author's hand and showed him and his "bodyguards" in to a row of prime seats. The pair attest that the plan came off without...
Linnet arrives in Montreal during World War II, alone and with $5 in her purse. As she describes her prospects, "My only commercial asset was that I knew French, but French was of no professional use to anyone in Canada then -- not even to French Canadians; one might as well have been fluent in Pushtu." Still, she perseveres, ultimately finds a job on a local newspaper and sets out to become a writer, much as the author herself did in the late 1940s. Such determination and pluck are rare among Gallant's outcast characters. When the girl's native country...
...sale of the aircraft company was forced on the Hughes Medical Institute by Internal Revenue Service rules governing the tax-exempt status of organizations. In 1953 Howard Hughes created the Medical Institute and gave it Hughes Aircraft as its only asset. This made the company accountable only to the institute's trustees, of which Hughes was the only one. That made Hughes Aircraft far freer than publicly owned companies to limit dividends and invest its profits as it saw fit in research and development...
...money markets. Reason: fear that the Federal Reserve would be forced to loosen its grip on the money supply and lower interest rates to protect the U.S. banking system. Last week's dollar slide was due in part to worries stemming from the bankruptcy of Bevill, Bresler & Shulman Asset Management, a small New Jersey investment firm dealing in Government securities. The Federal Reserve, though, has given no signs of moving to a much looser monetary policy...