Word: deale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...observers care about who wins or who loses. Very few seem to know that the regatta is a series of races. Some know even less. A woman wearing a Lesley College sweatshirt and sunglasses spoke distractedly, pointing first downstream, then upstream, then across the river, "So what's the deal? The races are going this way?" And others still less--"Are we near Harvard Square...
...federal welfare bureaucracy is inefficient. Liberals do fail to deal rationally with issues of national security and violent crime. A lot of government paperwork is unnecessary and counterproductive. Congress does waste a lot of money...
...terms of points, it was the second largest loss in Wall Street history; in percentage, the day ranked twelfth worst. "It's total emotional and psychological chaos," said Eugene Peroni, an analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott, a Philadelphia brokerage firm. "People are dumping < everything. A great deal of money is being lost...
...heaviest blow to the market came Friday afternoon. In a three-paragraph statement, UAL said a labor-management group headed by Chairman Stephen Wolf had failed to get enough financing to acquire United. Several banks had apparently balked at the deal, which was to be partly financed through junk bonds. The takeover group said it would submit a revised bid "in the near term," but the announcement stunned investors who had come to view the United deal as the latest sure thing in the 1980s buyout binge. Said John Downey, a trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange: "The airline...
...Bros. Friction between the neighbors began last month when Japan's Sony agreed to buy Columbia for $3.4 billion and made plans to hire hit-making producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters (Rain Man, Batman) to run the studio. But the two men had signed an exclusive five-year deal to make movies for rival Warner. The two sides tried to negotiate a settlement, but last week both filed major lawsuits. Warner wants $1 billion for the loss of Guber and Peters, while Sony rejects Warner's claims and is asking for $100 million...