Word: ince
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beverly-based firm, the nation's 27th largest cable company. Prevailed over two other budders for the lucrative Cambridge cable market: Cambridge Cambridge Corporation(3C) and the Cambridge consumer Owned Tele communications. Inc. (Cable Plus). American constructed and currently operates cable systems, in Arlington. Quincy, New buryport, and Situate and in parts of New York, although the Cambridge system will be the most extensive urban project the company has undertaken...
...acknowledges his friend's expertise too. As he told TIME last week, "Murph needs an adviser like Carl Lewis needs a tail wind." Berkshire Hathaway currently owns 13% of < the Washington Post Co., 8% of Affiliated Publications, whose flagship property is the Boston Globe, and 4% of Time Inc. Buffett agreed to buy 3 million shares, or 18%, of Capital Cities/ABC, as the new company is likely to be called. His cost: $517 million. He will sit on the board of the merged company, he said, but "won't be involved in the operations." To get the rest...
Businessman J. Peter Grace first recommended the improved hearing devices to Reagan. The new aids, made by Starkey Labs Inc., the Minneapolis manufacturer of his old aid, are half-inch-long devices called intracanal aids, meaning that they go inside the ear canal. The battery-operated devices are scheduled to go on the market next month at a retail cost of $900 to $1,100. Dr. John William House, the President's ear doctor, prescribed the second aid to balance Reagan's hearing by slightly increasing the volume level in his left ear. Reagan's right ear, House says...
...outlets in Europe and Australia, say that he relishes a role in running his acquisitions. "Normally, when you have an egomaniac, or, to be polite, a dominant personality, his taste is reflected in choices that are made," says Lee Isgur, an analyst for the brokerage firm of Paine Webber Inc. "Six to twelve months from now, everybody at Fox will be wondering, What will Rupert say about this...
...Politburo has often been compared with the board of directors of a stodgy American corporation. But one important difference is that Marxism-Leninism Inc. has yet to meet that rudimentary requirement of good business, a procedure for ensuring smooth management succession. Soviet leaders love to award one another ribbons and stars and medals, but never gold watches. Retirement seems a dishonorable estate, a form of internal banishment. So Khrushchev discovered. So Brezhnev no doubt recalled as he grew feeble. Andropov after him. And then Konstantin Chernenko...