Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warm, so the four men sat for a while on the State Department's eighth-floor balcony, overlooking beds of red and yellow tulips. But the meeting was a good deal less pleasant than the surroundings. Across from West Germany's Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg sat a grim-faced American duo: Secretary of State James Baker and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. After the four-hour meeting, Baker declared himself "furious" that the Germans had come...
Spence said that he would "deal with [thedownzoning] on a day-to-day basis...
...questions which were raised at the conference are pitfalls which we have taken a great deal of care to avoid," he said...
...Johnson, son of the founder, got an offer in 1979 from a British conglomerate named Imperial Group Ltd., he was happy to sell an empire that included 1,040 restaurants (about a quarter of them , locally franchised,) plus 520 motor lodges for a tidy $630 million. But the deal did not bring lasting happiness to the Britons, and in 1985 they sold Howard Johnson's to the Marriott Corp. Marriott, which owns Bob's Big Boys, kept only about 400-odd company-owned Howard Johnson's restaurants, which magically began turning into Bob's Big Boy restaurants, and sold...
...being inept at dispensing with property in a speedy but careful manner. The problem, they charge, is that the agency is riddled with bureaucrats who cannot make sharp, quick business judgments. Says Sam Pierce, a Houston-based adviser to the thrifts: "The FSLIC doesn't know a good deal from a bad one. They don't have the necessary brainpower or manpower...