Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bucking like a determined bronc, Texaco has been trying to throw Corporate Raider Carl Icahn off its back for the past six months. Now the company may finally have succeeded. Last week Icahn conceded that he had lost in a proxy vote of Texaco's 215,000 stockholders. The investors...
"Good evening, Mr. President," he says. "Would you consider sending the U.S. Navy to escort my ships through the strait?" Pause. The President is well aware that the request is coming from America's biggest creditor. "Why, yes, of course," he replies. The Prime Minister thanks him, adding, "I am...
Memory is a constant constraint on Japanese actions: neither the overwhelming majority of Japanese nor their neighbors want the country to become a military power again. "Everyone would be a little afraid," says Nimit Nontaponthawat, chief economist at Thailand's Bangkok Bank. "We still can't trust the Japanese 100...
$ Some Japanese argue that even if the country wanted to become a military superpower, it could not. They contend that the country is physically too small and is too easily susceptible to bombing and blockade. On the other hand, some Japanese believe that the day may come when they will...
Under Howard Deutch's languid direction, Candy performs the slow burn of a put-upon Mr. Middle America, and Aykroyd perfects his impression (first exhibited in the 1981 film Neighbors) of Richard Nixon as a used-car salesman. It would be nice if these acute comics had achieved the intimate...