Word: firming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California, would own 30 percent of the airline. Eastern's unions would get another 30 percent of the company in exchange for wage and work-rule concessions. The remaining 40 percent would be held by new investors, including Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. and Ardshiel Inc., a smaller New York firm...
...meeting, John M. Clancy of the Boston architectural firm Goody, Clancy and Associates described the plans for two six-story structures to be built on the lot. He said the red brick buildings will contain a day care center and playground for 60 children and a one-story underground garage with 82 spaces...
Harvard will convert the rectory into low- and moderate-income housing and build two six-story, brick buildings on the rest of the land, said O'Connell. She said the new brick structures, designed by the Boston firm Goody, Clancy and Associates, will together provide 80 rental units for Harvard affiliates...
When Dayton Searles heard the pitch, he figured he couldn't lose. A telephone salesman representing a Las Vegas firm called Vita Life told Searles that he had won a valuable prize. The St. Paul retiree would receive a new car, a two-week vacation in Hawaii, an imported French fur coat, a combination television-VCR, or $3,000 in cash. To qualify, all he had to do was buy some vitamins. Without a moment's hesitation, Searles agreed to order an eight- month supply for $395. But when his prize of a fur coat arrived 3 1/2 months later...
Both irrigation districts are firm on one point. The bid of $60 an acre-foot that Willey has presented on behalf of the Mono Lake litigants will cut no deals. One farmer states the proposition from Willey's point of view: "You get the price up, and if farm prices aren't so good, you're going to get other districts saying, 'Look what those fellows are doing over there.' " A price upwards of $125 might begin to stir their interest. Then they grimace and stare at their thumbs as if to say they honestly wished they could do better...