Word: assets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exudes a certain air of contentment. He should. Last year Bronfman sold the Texas Pacific Oil Co., which Seagram had bought in 1963 for $256 million, to the Sun Co., for $2.3 billion. Bronfman's nest egg has since grown to a stunning $3 billion through shrewd asset management, and he is now leisurely looking for a place to invest the money. Says he: "It's a little like matchmaking. There are a lot of willing brides, but the boy has still to make up his mind...
...examining their own policies on sources. "We are working at putting something in writing," says Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship. Nowhere was the process so intense as it was at the Washington Post. Bradlee reminded the staff last week: "The credibility of a newspaper is its most precious asset. It depends on the integrity of its reporters. We must begin immediately the uphill struggle of restoring our credibility...
When asked about her greatest swimming asset Caulkins immediately cites her mental attitude as being the factor that sets her apart from everyone else. "When you get to the national and international level everyone is physically equal." Caulkins says. "If you're mentally prepared and you have the stuff upstairs, then you'll win. I seem to have developed this toughness a little bit better than everyone else...
...takes more than just a great coach to build a top-notch program. A great pool is also an important, though perhaps not essential, asset because it attracts good coaches as well as good swimmers. It is no coincidence that while California had the top teams it also had the only really good year-round swimming facilities...
Advocates of Helms-Hyde have a very persuasive asset: the support of President Reagan. At his Washington press conference last month, Reagan sidestepped a reporter's unrelated question on abortion but then lauded the concept behind the Human Life Statute. Said he: "I think what is necessary in this whole problem, and has been the least talked of, is determining when and what is a human being. Once you have determined this, the Constitution already protects the right of human life." After the conference officially ended, Reagan came out with an afterthought: "Until we make to the best...