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...shuttle pulls up to its last stop on Garden Street, across from Johnston Gate, and all but one rider leaves...
...Bridge over the Ota River spillway, across a slim space of land to another bridge, which spanned the Tenma River, across another strip of land and the Nishi Heiwa Bridge over the Honkawa, finally crossing the Heiwa Bridge over the Motoyasu River. About 100 meters from the school gate, Kawamoto and his classmates were ordered to halt and march regimentally the rest...
...still give me an office to play in," says Agnew, suggesting that his days of hands-on running the company are over. GA Technologies is a very big thing to run: 1984 sales of $160 million and 1,800 employees. Filling 350 well-tended acres behind a high wire gate near La Jolla, Calif., the company resembles a little village, which, instead of a school, a church and a store, consists of a Fusion Building, Waste Yard Buildings and Experimental Area Buildings No. 1, No. 1Bunker...
Unlike major league baseball, the N.F.L. has kept its teams financially sound by adopting a share-the-wealth strategy. The teams split all the league's gate receipts and television income. That discourages clubs from trying to outbid one another for players because any added revenues that a new star generated would have to be shared. "The N.F.L. is the nation's healthiest sporting enterprise," brags Commissioner Pete Rozelle. Its profits amounted to $77 million last year...
That aim, at least, has become a little easier to judge, now that the dust has settled. Heaven's Gate did not help United Artists, but it did not wreck it either. It was the symbolic point on which the company finally foundered, while the film itself, for which Bach has little remaining regard, endures. It was ecstatically reviewed in London when the uncut version was released there in 1983 and actually brought a few dollars' profit into the distribution coffers. Technology will ultimately settle the score. The full version of Heaven's Gate is available at the neighborhood video...