Word: hansons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to his father, 15-year-old Mark Hanson, son of the Dudley House masters, enjoys playing pick-up basketball at the Malkin Athletic Center. And his brother Nathaniel, 12, says his pool game has definitely improved as a result of his playing at Dudley House's Lehman Hall...
...Museum and the owners of the site, Hanson Development, are asking the British government to declare the ruins a site of national importance...
...dinner party to celebrate the company's rebuff in May of a hostile takeover bid by South African-controlled Minorco. Not until the meal was over did ConsGold Chairman Rudolph Agnew inform his troops that the company's board had accepted a $5.5 billion takeover bid from Hanson PLC, the $12.5 billion British group whose holdings include Jacuzzi and Farberware...
...Lord Hanson, the company's chairman, and Sir Gordon White, head of U.S. operations, have built their empire by acquiring assets at bargain prices and then selling off pieces to pay down their debts. As a result, the 102-year-old ConsGold, which owns 49% of Newmont Mining, the largest gold producer in the U.S., is likely to be split up. Some of its divisions may wind up in the hands of the company's first suitor, Minorco...
...Moscow. For example, the government has ordered far more computers than factories can produce without sacrificing strict quality standards, instead of allowing the plants to set their own targets. Western economists think Moscow should give individual managers more discretion to experiment with new technologies and independent research. Says Philip Hanson, a Soviet-economics specialist at Britain's University of Birmingham: "The fundamental role of the market in weeding out unsuccessful technological processes and forcing firms to innovate is something that a lot of Soviet officials don't really grasp...