Word: inclies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afternoon News and the morning Free Press to beat each other into submission cost millions and kept newsstand prices and advertising rates at rock bottom. Then two years ago both papers agreed to an odd sort of truce. Gannett Co., owner of the News, and Knight-Ridder Inc., owner of the Free Press, decided to take advantage of a federal law designed to preserve the editorial voice of a dying newspaper by allowing it to combine its business operations with a healthy competitor. They thus joined forces in applying to the Justice Department for approval of a "joint operating arrangement...
...Benedetti, who is chairman of Italy's Olivetti and holds stakes in companies ranging from the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house to the Buitoni Perugina food giant, managed to grab a major interest in La Generale -- also known as Belgium Inc. -- while no one was looking. His announcement last week that he had acquired an 18.6% share (market value: more than $300 million) largely through his Paris-based holding company, Cerus, prompted hurrahs in Italy's financial community. "It was a brilliant operation, a theatrical coup," said Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, and Italian newspapers bannered triumphant headlines like DE BENEDETTI...
...beyond 1992, when the trade barriers between the twelve European Community countries are scheduled to be eliminated. That step will create a wide-open marketplace of some 320 million consumers, a powerful launching pad for companies aiming to compete on a global scale. When that happens, Belgium Inc. could become the first holder of the title Europe Inc...
...doubts that pacemakers can save lives. But as many as 30,000 may be buried with the deceased each year in the U.S. To avoid such waste, Implant Technologies Inc. of Bothell, Wash., wants funeral directors to recover the devices so the firm can then sterilize and export them to the Third World for $600 to $800 apiece. "In the more than 6,000 cases of pacemaker reuse around the world, there has never been a single reported incident of malfunction attributable to reuse," declares I.T.I. President John Elsholz. If a pacemaker works, he reasons, why abandon it? The company...
Defying all expectations, health costs continue to soar. -- The Pentagon' s new buyer. -- De Benedetti raids Belgium Inc...