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Tenant activist William S. Noble said Harvard may have wanted to "increase the cash flow for the new buyer. They wouldn't have needed to raise rents if they wanted to keep ownership...
...billion), can be taken over by the new breed of dealmakers, is any company safe? Is Du Pont doable? Can General Electric be hot-wired? Worse, must every chief executive view a healthy balance sheet as his worst enemy, a potentially rich source of leverage for a pushy buyer? Concludes James Scott, professor of finance at Columbia Business School: "There is no magic number anymore. There is no safety in size...
Blazakis has identified more than 300 photographs taken since 1982 showing Mrs. Reagan wearing outfits by such couturiers as Galanos, Hayes, Bill Blass and Adolfo. He has estimated prices for each outfit. A buyer for a leading department store independently verified the Blazakis estimates on a representative sample of 80 of these photographs. The two fashion experts placed a retail value on each ensemble; they ranged from $1,500 to more than $20,000. Both estimated the value of the whole collection at between...
Another woman who had been a close associate of Barry's went to jail for dealing cocaine and later admitted before a grand jury that the mayor paid her $25,000 to deny that he had been a buyer. Barry himself has been the target of two federal investigations centering on influence-peddling and the misuse of city contracts, has illegally used city funds for his family's personal expenses, and had to be thrown out of the house of a young model he had been harrassing...
...fall has been sharpest for young families; for people between 35 and 39, the percentage owning their own homes has dropped from 61% to 53% since Reagan became President. Middle-class salaries have simply fallen far short of the inflation in housing costs: today's average home buyer has to save 50% of / a full year's income just to put up the down payment, as opposed to 33% in 1978. As a result, those buying homes tend increasingly to be those lucky enough to have parents from whom they can borrow money. Then, when they need a bigger home...