Word: assets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some analysts say Kerkorian's bid actually underestimates the company's underlying value. If the U.S. economy manages to maintain moderate growth with low inflation, car sales might not suffer as they did in the last recession. And a seasoned asset stripper like Kerkorian might not hesitate to sell off some of the company's high-performance divisions, like Jeep. "I think it's a $100-per-share stock," says David Cole, head of the University of Michigan's auto-industry think tank...
Additionally, the system penalizes families who must travel to work, Mikulski said, because it considers ,the family car an asset rather than a necessityfor employment...
Indeed, the most powerful scenes in the play are those in which there is no dialogue at all. Flee's hysterical, No-Doz-induced insomnia, her midnight searches for the secret photos, areintensely claustrophobic, and manage to turn the Old Library's small stage into an asset. (The same cannot be said for the poor sightlines, which often keep one or both of their actor's faces out of view). The scene in which Jarred photographs the sleeping Flee achieves a genuine eroticism and a powerful sense of violation; there is a risk of awkwardness in dealing with these topics...
...Congressman Robert Torricelli, a Democrat from New Jersey and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, learned from sources of his own that in January the CIA had sent the State Department and White House a report containing an allegation that Colonel Julio Roberto Alpirez, once a paid CIA asset, may have played a role in Bamaca's death. Alpirez may also be linked to the 1990 murder of Michael DeVine, an American innkeeper in Guatemala. Torricelli claims that the CIA knew since 1992 of both Bamaca's death and its own involvement--a claim the CIA vehemently denies...
...source tells TIME that Hillary Rodham Clinton will bow to public discomfort with her czar-like role in policy issues and play advocate instead. President Clinton and the first lady have talked at length about her role and how she is perceived: "They've concluded she is an enormous asset to him personally," says the source, but the American people "want her to be an advocate for causes she believes in, and not operationally in charge of things. They feel that having her running a piece of the action is hard for the public to understand." Instead, the First Couple...