Word: ince
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...businessmen to a luncheon to hear Lance report on "a ten-nation European visit with heads of state," although Lance had visited only five countries and met no heads of state. Lance also has become the go-between for wealthy Middle Easterners trying to take over Financial General Bankshares Inc., which controls 15 banks in Washington, D.C., and four states, and that has landed him in more trouble...
...homes for a year. Other companies can draw on gas from wells drilled on their plant sites. Among them are Westinghouse Air Brake, Koppers Co., Edgewater Steel, Union Switch & Signal and Pittsburgh Forgings. As energy prices rise, the scramble for wells intensifies. One real estate developer, Town Development, Inc., has applied to put down wells on the city limits of Pittsburgh to supply fuel to a motel and office-building complex..The Pittsburgh fire department is opposing the move until it gets assurances that adequate safety precautions will be taken...
...what he views as unfair competition from Japan, Inc. "The government and the business people and the bankers there move as one. The Japanese sell more than 1 million vehicles a year in the U.S., but they import fewer than 50,000 vehicles from all countries. They have a way of operating to make sure that their markets are served by their own manufacturers. When I look at the value of the yen today compared with its value three years ago, I have to conclude that their autos are not fairly priced because the value of the yen has appreciated...
...mind that philosophy, can music, embrace botany, magic, sculpture, mathematics and folklore belongs in the quattrocento, not in the Manhattan ware house district. But Hayward Cirker is content. The owlish founder and president of Dover Publications Inc. insists that he is precisely where he belongs. "I'm no Renaissance man," he maintains. "I'm just curious...
...started collecting while honeymooning abroad in 1930. Today he owns 10,000 pieces worth an estimated $33.6 million. Last week he announced plans to share his acquisitions with the public -via an annual catalogue of reproductions and a five-book art series to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. Inc. The first book, with about 250 photographs of Rockefeller's collection of primitive art, will appear this fall. Rocky, who has been tending to his family's financial interests and traveling since his retirement from politics two years ago, wrote an introduction to it, and also plans...