Word: deale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family's troubles are so terrible; it is that they are so terribly typical. Eldest son Gil (Steve Martin) is a perfectionist who wants to be the ideal husband, father, provider and Little League manager that Frank never was. Gil's wise and patient wife (Mary Steenburgen) can deal with the pressure his anxious idealism generates, but his eight-year-old son cannot. The boy's school is insisting that special education is his only hope. His ball team is down on him because he keeps muffing easy pop-ups. Which, of course, makes Gil try even more unnervingly...
...share for 100 million of the more than 180 million Warner shares outstanding. Along with 17 million Warner shares that Time acquired in a stock swap in June, the tender gave Time a 58% controlling interest in its merger partner. As a result of the deal, Time changed its name to Time Warner; the company will buy the remaining Warner shares for a combination of cash and securities under terms that the parties must determine within three months. The purchase price will include a total of $677 million in payments to 500 Warner employees to honor their pre-existing stock...
...those maneuvers--like the Iran-Contra deal--which looks infallible on paper. The abduction of Sheik Abdul Karem Obeid could have proved a profitable and much needed bargaining chip for the release of Israeli soldiers taken captive by Hezbollah terrorists...
...more than two years to buy them as condominiums--thus reducing the city's stock of affordable housing. Sponsors of 1-2-3 argue that the referendum would benefit the city by allowing more city residents to own their own homes, but opponents charge that such a change would deal a death-blow to the rent-control system...
...activity for the church for the benefit of the whole society," as well as enhance Poland's international prestige. Warsaw's progovernment daily Zycie Warszawy declared in an editorial that the Vatican is obviously convinced that the changes within Poland are "permanent." In addition, said the newspaper, the diplomatic deal "is a confirmation of the range of reforms taking place not only in Poland but elsewhere in Eastern Europe...