Word: cordialities
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...meeting was brief and cordial, and McGraw did not then answer. The next morning he said he was "negative" and asked stockholders to do nothing until the board meets this week to study the offer. The Amexco bid comes to $34 a McGraw-Hill share, a fat premium over the $26 market price just before the bid. But Harold McGraw, grandson of the company's founder and a man set in his ways, wants to keep the family in command...
...none of these matters were expected to cause serious trouble in the pre-Christmas talks. The mood around the conference table was cordial, even inviting some light bantering. Gromyko jokingly asked his counterpart: "Do you have your chief of staff with you?" The Russian was referring to Vance's wife Grace. The Secretary of State replied, smiling: "I have my chief of staff. She keeps me in line...
Atlanta, fifth biggest convention capital thanks to two-year-old Georgia World Congress Center, lured 775 gatherings, 800,000 delegates, $212 million. Attractions: 28,000 hotel rooms, more than 1 million sq. ft. exhibition space, a cordial citizenry, historic sites...
...could precipitate bloody civil war between the Front and domestic black groups after the fall of Smith. There is enmity between Nkomo and Sithole, and little love lost between any of the moderates and the Front; in fact, even relations between Nkomo and Mugabe have been somewhat less than cordial, and there are hints that the two might pit their armies against each other in competition for total control of an independent Zimbabwe. Neither of the guerrilla leaders will promise to hold elections before proclaiming an independent black-ruled state...
...University and the people who staff its dining halls raises a number of disturbing questions about the underside of labor relations at Harvard. Granted, the exchange between the dining hall workers' union, Local 26, and the University negotiators has, to say the least, never been what anyone would term cordial. Nevertheless, the course of the recent negotiations reveals Harvard's consistently hard-line, legalistic and impersonal attitude towards organized employees...