Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gather most of your material by indirection-by looking, listening, being part of-rather than by asking." Sometimes, when he asked, the source was decidedly suspicious: "Try to tell a tableful of pretty girls in a busy dating bar that you're from TIME and want to buy them a drink and talk to them for a while. One well-made, micro-skirted blonde gave us the fish eye. 'TIME mag azine, huh? Well, that's a new one.'" On the other hand, an encounter with a cooperative source could also have its frustrations: "Working...
...years boss of Sheraton Hotels, world's largest chain; of a heart attack; in Boston. Sparely built and quiet, Henderson and his Harvarc roommate, Robert Moore, started oui in 1919 with a small import and radio business, then during the Depression gambled $10,000 to buy a faltering Boston investment firm; by taking advantage of low prices, they gobbled up properties that totaled $30 million by 1939-including Boston's Sheraton, which became the namesake of an evergrowing chain of businessmen-oriented hotels that today numbers 153 in the U.S. and abroad...
...recent surprises of the computer business has been the swift rise of middlemen who buy the machines from manufacturers and lease them to users. The middlemen operate with vast sums of other people's money, depend on federal antitrust pressure against dominant IBM for survival and on favorable income tax breaks for much of their profit. Yet a dozen companies, none more than 15 years old, have thrived so splendidly that computer-leasing stocks were among Wall Street's hottest glamor issues this spring...
...Rome, Bergman's role is to be "wholly and completely the mother. I buy their clothes; I go to the schoolteachers and talk about lessons and what they are weak in; I go to the dentist's with them-just like any mother...
...South America, where ITT has had numerous political squabbles over its utilities operations, the company is selling off a few of its telephone companies; fortnight ago, Geneen's men reached agreement with the Peruvian government, which will buy the local ITT-run phone system in 1971. To further minimize reliance on government-related business, ITT has been diversifying abroad, acquiring computer-programming services, a lamp manufacturer and TV plants in Germany and France. Last week, in one of many "substantial acquisitions" foreseen by ITT-Europe Executive Vice President James V. Lester, the company added to the fold West Germany...