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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Time-Warner combination would take on a heavy load of new debt, as much as $14 billion. The company (estimated total revenues: $10 billion) would have an estimated cash flow of $2 billion, which would be tapped for loan payments. "These are great organizations with very good cash flows, so the debt doesn't have to be a negative," observes William Farley, chairman of Chicago- based Farley Industries, which took over West Point-Pepperell in a hostile bid this year. But, he adds, "it takes a certain kind of management to deal with that kind of debt. You're that...
...that is without a scratch or mar is kind of distressing. It shows no life and has no time value." His business approach is equally straightforward. "I wanted," he says, "to make furniture out of real wood without it costing that much more than you would pay in a good store." He sells only directly to customers. Prices for stock items range from $155 for a plank stool to $4,000 for a wall case...
...four living ex-Presidents -- Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon -- Reagan alone can boast of an exit from power in good health, both political and physical, and after two full terms of general peace and prosperity. What's more, he even liked...
...solstice induce in them some Kafkaesque mental process by which we are converted, for purposes of contemptuous calculation, into some lower life-form? Do moviegoers suddenly seem to them to be, say, a vast colony of ants mindlessly munching through forests of Roman numerals, unconcerned about the taste, good or bad, of anything placed in our path? (Yum -- Indiana Jones III; slurp -- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; burp -- Ghostbusters...
...Aykroyd have slightly altered the circumstances of their central figures, they have not bothered to develop their characters any further. Dana, for example, has a baby and a tangle-tongued boss -- marvelously played by Peter MacNicol -- who is madly in love with her. The ghostbusters themselves are suffering, to good comic effect, from celebrity burnout and municipal ire over their failure to clean up the mess that they made the last time they saved the city...