Word: grows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company, Johnson and the seven other executives would see the value of their investment jump to $200 million when the sale was completed. That was only the beginning. By doing some simple arithmetic, critics of the plan calculated that the eight men's holdings, which were scheduled to grow to 18.5%, could be worth $2.6 billion within five years if they turned RJR Nabisco into a leaner and more profitable enterprise. Johnson's share alone would have been worth $1 billion...
...time, unglamorous financial gimmick when KKR began hawking them on Wall Street in the mid-1970s. But the arrangements were an immediate hit with managers who saw the wisdom of taking their companies private to escape corporate raiders. LBOs were also a boon to promising firms that wanted to grow outside Wall Street's harsh spotlight...
...must come to terms with his father, and himself; he must, in short, learn to grow up, a process which lies at the heart of any father-son relationship. That process, perhaps more painful and certainly less conventionally eloquent than simple elegy, enables one to cope with the death of a parent, McElroy suggests. It also forms the basis for a well-crafted and instructive novel...
...Maybe Harvard will take down the ivy and grow tobacco, since that's a moreprofitable product," said Greg Connolly SPH '78,an analyst for the state Department of PublicHealth and the World Health Organization...
...beginner grown-up. Part of it was fun, like moving from the kiddy table to the Big People's table during Thanksgiving dinner. But most of it was unsettling, like the subtle change in my uncle's standard question from "So, what are you going to be when you grow up?" to the more threatening, "So what are you going to do?" I experienced what an understanding senior in my hall calls "pre-life crisis...