Word: assets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps Video Sickness's most valuable asset is the quality of its acting. Its fourteen cast members, the majority of which are drawn from Harvard's improvisational theater groups, add a real vivacity to the film and often save it from lapsing into contrived, run-of-the-mill bad jokes...
...Angeles investor Marvin Davis. In spurning the $90-a-share offer, NWA Chairman Steven Rothmeier, 42, said his firm fully intends to remain independent. But Davis, whose group owns 3% of NWA's shares, vowed to press ahead with plans to acquire the company and its prize asset, Northwest, the fourth largest U.S. airline. The Californian's bid has raised the hackles of many Minnesotans, who are still smarting from last year's takeover of local giant Pillsbury by Britain's Grand Metropolitan...
...caption: "Good taste is always an asset...
Under last week's racketeering charges, the Government can freeze the Milken brothers' assets even before they are tried. Prosecutors are expected to ask the investment bankers to post a $1 billion bond to prevent such an asset seizure. Last week Milken said he would take a leave of absence from the firm to fight the charges. Said he: "After almost 2 1/2 years of leaks and distortions, I am now eager to present all the facts in an open and unbiased forum...
...English has shifted from the literary world toward those of science, business, medicine and North American slang. In fact, a partial listing of what the language has been up to lately is enough to inspire depression: brain-dead, nose job, right-to-die, acid rain, crack, heat-seeker, asset stripping, greenmail, petro-currency, barf, drunk tank. There is not much here that would inspire Keats to write...