Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned blockbuster novelist Tom Clancy. Forget the four straight best sellers published since 1984 and the 20 million copies sold. Forget the movie version of his first novel, now in production. Forget the $4 million advance for his latest thriller, Clear and Present Danger. Forget such crass calculus of cash- register commerce...
...infusions of cash and care paid off. The high school graduation rate has risen from 73.4% to 77.5%, and the percentage of students going on to Arkansas colleges, just 38.7% in 1982, has grown to 44.5%. All this has helped Clinton, 42, a boyish-looking Rhodes scholar with presidential ambitions, earn a national reputation as a wizard of school reform. "I feel real good about where we have come in the past 6 1/2 years," says the Governor...
...leaving executives with little room for error. "Running an LBO is different from running other companies," says Wilbur Ross, a senior managing director of Rothschild Inc., a New York City investment firm. "The reaction time at LBO companies has got to be a lot quicker, because they must generate cash fast enough to beat those interest-payment deadlines...
...grumbling has been kept to a minimum. The blow has been softened by a rise of more than 100% in wages in the past twelve months; with too much money chasing too few goods, large amounts of cash are waiting to be soaked up. Moreover, workers and pensioners will be cushioned from the impact of diminishing subsidies by cost of living adjustments. Still, consumer stoicism is likely to evaporate quickly if the new market policy fails to improve supplies of foodstuffs and prices continue to rise...
Screenplay by Dennis Shryack, Michael Blodgett, Daniel Petrie Jr., Jim Cash and Jack Epps...