Word: elie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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YALE-COLGATE--Cornell didn't have much trouble with Colgate a week ago. Yale will. Eli quarterback Tom Doyle put together another pathetic aerial show against UConn (6-15). Colgate has Tom Parr at QB, and he should pick the Eli secondary apart. The hardy men of Yale get no tail--at least not this weekend. Colgate 21, Yale...
Land is also a notoriously illiquid investment: a seller can wait months, even years, to find a buyer at the price he demands. Meanwhile, interest payments and local taxes on the land continue. Eli Broad of Los Angeles, a major home builder, says that undeveloped land has to appreciate 20% a year to cover carrying costs. On balance, it rarely does...
...ELI BROAD, 40. Head of Kaufman and Broad, which he built into the nation's largest independent home builders (revenues: $340 million in the past year), by offering low-to middle-income tract houses at prices below those of competitors...
Unfailingly attired in his uniform, General St. Pé (Eli Wallach) faces advancing middle age as if it were a court-martial. He is chained to a vixenish wife (Anne Jackson) who spews venom at him and pretends to be a dying invalid. In his high-romantic imagination, he is in thrall to the memories of a young girl (Diana Van Der Vlis) he waltzed with 17 years ago. St. Pé's dream girl appears, only to run off with his callow aide, and the general is left alone in the dusk...
...United Fruit takeover made 52-year-old Eli Black one of the nation's largest conglomerateurs, and certainly its most mysterious. After graduating from Manhattan's Yeshiva University in 1940, he turned to investment banking, and in the late 1960s helped combine a group of small manufacturing companies into AMK Corp. As AMK chairman, he quickly transformed the company into an $840 million-a-year giant by acquiring John Morrell & Co., an ailing meat packer. He then noticed that United Fruit was ripe for picking: its earnings were dwindling, but it had cash reserves of $100 million...