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...afternoon talk show, Unsolicited Advice from the Rich and Famous? No, these stars are among the first participants in a TV genre still in its infancy: the instructional videocassette. As VCR machines have proliferated, so have how-to cassettes made expressly for the home market. A large chunk of them are exercise and fitness tapes, led by the best-selling Jane Fonda's Workout (which has sold 750,000 worldwide since its 1982 release). But hundreds of other how-to tapes are on the market, covering everything from auto repairs to making love. By plunking a cassette into their home...
Doherty said the new leadership positions will probably help the City in terms of increased constituent services, greater access to the state for the City Council, and a larger chunk of urban housing grants, especially from Graham's committee...
...million drive was already past its halfway mark. After six months of disuscussions the campaign leadership decided to boost the goal by $100 million. In his announcement of the increase at 1982 Commencement. Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, one of three national co-chairmen, argued that the additional chunk was needed to get the job done right...
...already hooked on Japanese capital. Enticed by steep American interest rates, Japanese investors poured about $25 billion last year into U.S. Government securities. That windfall financed a sizable chunk of the $175 billion federal budget deficit. Without Japanese money, interest rates on Treasury securities, which now range to 11.66% on a 30-year bond, would be even higher...
Pickens' spectacular gains have led critics to charge that he is really an adept practitioner of "greenmail." A greenmailer creates the threat of a takeover by buying a big chunk of a company's stock. He then sells the shares back to the firm at a premium when its executives, fearing the loss of their jobs in a takeover, agree to buy him out. Pickens denies any intention of greenmail: "If we had wanted to greenmail Phillips, it would have been a substantially different deal. Instead, we did stay in and we did work hard for the stockholders...