Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three days while calls bounced between agencies. When relatives of John Ahern, 26, went to New York City's Kennedy Airport, they were directed to a livestock warehouse where his body was forklifted off a plane in a cardboard box. No Pan Am or Government representative was present to help them. "They stripped him of his dignity," says Ahern's sister Bonnie O'Connor. "He should have come home with an American flag on his coffin...
Nonetheless, the deal will bring Hollywood's two hottest producers to Columbia Pictures. That should help stabilize a struggling studio that has gone through three top management teams since 1978 and had been at a standstill while awaiting the outcome of the Sony-Warner battle. But after paying a spectacular price for admission to the U.S. movie business, Sony will expect its two hitmakers to deliver some true Hollywood miracles...
With a little help from Western publications, exiled dissidents are again employing fax technology to send their pro-democracy views into China. But last week authorities got the message and ordered all work units equipped with the machines to intercept the transmission of objectionable material...
...could lease any asset -- say, a tractor -- from its owner and get a tax deduction for all payments of principal and interest, as long as you had no right to the asset at the end of the term. (The law, needless to say, was framed to help undercapitalized businesses that cannot afford new tractors, not financiers who want to turn a Manet into a tax loss.) Bond had the Manet from Chemical on such an operating lease and got tax write- offs on it that may have run as high as $3.5 million...
...Lyght. Holtz also persuaded quarterback Tony Rice, tailback Ricky Watters and flanker Raghib ("Rocket") Ismail, players who have been crucial to the Irish success, to enroll at Notre Dame. Not that Notre Dame, with its mystique and a virtual farm team of Catholic high schools providing talent, needs additional help on the recruiting front. Says Beano Cook, the acerbic college football analyst for the ESPN television network: "It's easy to win at Notre Dame. They get enough material to win the A.F.C. West...