Word: growing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like some marriages, you gradually may grow tired of your spouse/roommate, preferring instead to spend your time outside the room in hopes of more pleasant companionship. These "affairs" may be the only way to make your Harvard experience bearable if your roomie is too annoying, but be careful...Glenn Close may be out there...
...Paramount were in fact successful, the deal would leave it with a heavy debt burden. Although Davis has vowed he would not dismember Time after an acquisition, the pressure to sell assets might grow in response to the need to make large interest payments. In raising the stakes, Paramount acknowledged that its takeover proposal is conditional to, among other things, Time calling off its acquisition of Warner and rescinding the share exchange already executed and on Paramount's ability to obtain adequate financing. To cover the cost of acquiring Time's stock and meet merger-related expenses, Paramount said...
...game, however, with extraordinary stakes. The Time-Warner deal had gathered support among many U.S. business leaders because it suggested a healthy way for companies to grow and expand without incurring a backbreaking load of debt. But the frenzy that surrounded the Paramount proposal last week seemed more closely linked to the merger mania of the roaring '80s than to hopes of restoring U.S. competitiveness in the 1990s. At the very least, the managers and employees of Time, Warner and Paramount stand to be distracted for months by the takeover struggle. And while a clash of the titans...
...Amex shows how $200 a month for 25 years would grow to $183,000, assuming 12% the first year and 8% each subsequent year, vs. just $124,000 outside the shelter of a tax-deferred annuity. But that's $183,000 before tax vs. $124,000 after tax. And it assumes that the best you could earn on your own is a fully taxable 8% a year...
Absent father. Melancholy mom. Squall-free adolescence followed by the ritual college degree. But with no draft to face -- no obligations at all, really -- how is a bright, sensitive, well-off young fellow to grow up? Honoring tradition, Alec Stern decides to go abroad to try out maturity. His destination: Tokyo. Bicycle Days, a first novel by a 24-year-old Harvard graduate, is the wry, rueful story of Alec's efforts to cope with his job at a computer outfit and with a vexing foreign culture. Through his adoptive family, the friendship of an old fisherman and a troubling...