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...Europe, they simply tap out a telephone number and leave a message in an electronic "voice mailbox," a kind of computerized answering service. Later the traveling employees can listen at their convenience. Says Executive Vice President Brice Schuller: "Most of us are usually on the go, so we just dump a message into a guy's phone mailbox and he can step into any phone booth...
...from 330 theater parties that have signed up for special blocks of seats. The show cost a princely $4 million or so to mount. It cost $2.5 million to strip-mine the interior and stage of the Winter Garden Theater and construct a cats' Valhalla of a nocturnal dump. Cost of restoration when Cats eventually vacates: an additional $1.5 million...
...collapsed because of speculation run amuck. In the late 1970s, dealers in Tel Aviv, one of the world's diamond-cutting centers, began buying bushels of stones on credit after the government subsidized interest rates at 6%. At the same time, global inflation was causing investors to dump paper assets like currency and stock, and buy tangible goods, particularly gold, real estate and gems. The cost of an investment-grade D-flawless diamond, which had risen from $1,250 in 1967 to $7,000 in 1976, suddenly soared. By early 1980, the price had reached an unsustainable...
Surprising because it's chic thes to dump on college life and life at Harvard particular. Aloof senior professors, incomp underage section leaders, socetting, dog food in the dining halls--you've the horror stories. Enquire magazine wen fac as to generalize in a September 198 ssay, "The Trouble with Harvard" that al all undergraduates here distinctly unhappy...
McCardell's departure was politely termed a "resignation" by company officials, but the actual decision to dump him was made at a two-hour weekend meeting of the firm's 16-member board of directors. International Harvester has been under intense pressure from banks and other lenders, to which it owes $4.2 billion, and the company's creditors are widely thought to have played a key role in forcing McCardell out. Says William A. Goldstein, executive vice president and analyst for the Chicago investment brokerage firm of Burton J. Vincent, Chesley & Co.: "Despite their denials, the banks...