Word: chip
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Chevron last week presented the Pittsburgh community with something in return. The giant oil company (1984 revenues: $27.8 billion) said it will donate the 85-acre Gulf research laboratories in nearby Harmarville to the University of Pittsburgh and will chip in a $3 million start-up grant as well. The firm said that the fully equipped 52-year-old labs would cost about $100 million to duplicate today...
...February. But little was known about how he might achieve this until the New York Times reported last week that Turner had lined up support from Financier William Simon, the former Treasury Secretary, and MCI Communications, the long-distance phone company. Simon and MCI reportedly had agreed to chip in a modest $50 million each. MCI Spokesman Gary Tobin denied that his firm had pledged money to Turner, but he acknowledged that the company was sounded out by a third party, whom he would not identify, about a deal. "We are often approached to discuss potential investments," said Tobin...
...last year, making it the company's No. 1 flavor. Haagen Dazs says it will "vigorously defend the lawsuit" and "aggressively pursue cancellation" of the trademark. Haagen Dazs contends that pralines and cream is a generic name that should be available to all companies, just like chocolate chip and butter pecan...
That is a hotly debated argument. The Reagan Administration carefully refrained from calling the MX a bargaining "chip," which would imply a willingness to trade the system away. Even if the MX were used in the talks, moreover, that would provide no guarantee that its status would remain permanently negotiable. The Ford Administration conceived of the cruise missile largely as a bargaining item, for example, but the U.S. has since been reluctant to place cruise missiles, especially the sea-launched variety, on the table. The only major weapons system ever to serve as true trade-off material was the antiballistic...
...best of the new business games are three fast-paced simulation programs that re-create the stock, real estate and commodities markets: Blue Chip Software's Millionaire, Baron and Tycoon. For $60 each, these startlingly realistic games let players dip their feet into the volatile market for stock options or pork-belly futures--without having to take a bath...