Word: ince
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...separate but timely topic, what are your thoughts about the various bids to take over CBS Inc...
Wearing an exterminator's white coveralls and grasping a bug-spray canister and two yellow flyswatters, Conte announced on the steps of the Capitol that Shulton, Inc., a "roach-busting" company from his congressional district, was donating 35,000 roach traps to combat the problem. Conte, a 26-year veteran of the Hill, is something of an expert on all sorts of pests. Says he: "I've seen the beady-eyed Midwestern cockroach, the pesky little New England cockroach as well as the rodeo cockroach, usually found only west of the Mississippi...
...they find themselves up against an array of cultural and technical trade barriers, including a closed and cumbersome bureaucracy, an old-boy system of business contacts that is nearly impervious to outsiders, and a buy-Japan-first attitude in the marketplace. Says Robert G. Gressens, president of GTE International Inc., a manufacturer of telecommunications equipment: "We don't face any specific laws and regulations that we point to and say, 'Hey, we take issue with this.' It's more nearly an attitudinal thing, a cultural thing...
...call special meetings. In addition, the company opened a $1.5 billion line of credit with a consortium of banks; it could use the funds to buy other companies, making it harder for Turner--or anybody--to swallow CBS. The maneuver churned up rumors that CBS might merge with Time Inc. or sell its magazine division to raise cash. CBS denied the gossip, as well as reports of a friendly merger offer by General Electric...
...laws out of the country. Six years passed before they were allowed to immigrate to the U.S. TIME was able to get many of its Vietnamese employees and their families out of the collapsing country. Dang Nguyen, bureau manager from 1964 to 1975 and now the chief of Time Inc.'s wire room in New York City, flew out with his wife and six children on a U.S. Air Force plane a week before Saigon's fall. So did Staff Photographer Le-Minh Thai, now employed in the Los Angeles bureau. Bookkeeper Nga Thi Tran was able to get seats...