Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group has pledged to support incumbents Francis H. Duehay '55 and Alice K. Wolf; city Democratic Committee chair Esther Hanig; former School Committee members Rena Leib; and past candidates Jonathan Myers, Kenneth E. Reeves '72, Renae Scott and John St. George...
...shortages of the 1970s hurt all roadside businesses considerably. There were also some who claimed that baby-boom customers preferred zippy novelties like, say, tacoburgers. So when Howard B. Johnson, son of the founder, got an offer in 1979 from a British conglomerate named Imperial Group Ltd., he was happy to sell an empire that included 1,040 restaurants (about a quarter of them , locally franchised,) plus 520 motor lodges for a tidy $630 million. But the deal did not bring lasting happiness to the Britons, and in 1985 they sold Howard Johnson's to the Marriott Corp. Marriott, which...
Such problems have plunged most firms into the financial doldrums. Merrill Lynch, the largest U.S. brokerage, reported last week that its first-quarter profits tumbled to $37.2 million, down 46% from a year ago. Paine Webber Group said its earnings dropped 56%, while Dean Witter's income was off nearly 40%. Shearson Lehman Hutton suffered a particularly harsh blow. After writing down its holdings in MCorp, a troubled Texas banking firm, Shearson reported a $15 million loss for the quarter. Overall, the before-tax income of U.S. securities firms slumped to $450 million, down 60% from the first quarter...
...change of heart was inspired by an outcry that began soon after the tusks appeared in Sotheby's catalog. Clients and environmentalists said the sale would encourage poachers who are wiping out Africa's elephant herds. In a half-page ad in the New York Times, a Connecticut-based group called Friends of Animals asked, "Why auction elephant tusks in the midst of an elephant holocaust...
Sotheby's removed the tusks from the market by buying them from the unidentified owner, and will donate them to a museum. "We will never again sell elephant tusks," said Michael Ainslie, president of Sotheby's. "We would hope it sets an example." Environmental groups hope so as well. The U.S. imports about $30 million worth of ivory annually. Much of it is illegally harvested in a slaughter that each year wipes out nearly 100,000 of Africa's elephants, reducing their current numbers to as few as 600,000. To cut demand, the African Wildlife Foundation, a Washington-based...