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Seagram, the Canadian liquor and beverage company, acquired a 5.7% stake in Time Warner, the entertainment and media company, and sought approval to purchase up to 15%. Seagram said its investment was friendly...
...just finished two years at the same university. For Naruhito, who speaks English almost as fluently, Oxford was a liberation. Though he did have minimal security protection, he was for the first time in his young life on his own. A wine fancier, he could walk into a liquor store and pick his own bottles. He could go to the laundry and make a fool of himself by letting suds flood the floor. When the winter turned harsh, he could tape his own windows or suffer the consequences. He made good use of his experience, writing a thesis...
...agent in charge on the ground. "We stayed in touch to avoid provocation, but everything was done on his time -- he was in strict control." Negotiators had learned that Koresh had a particular dread of jail, a fear of being raped. "He had all the wives, food and liquor he wanted," Coulson says. "Inside, he's God. Outside, he's an inmate on trial for his life. What was he going...
Thomas first set up Wynn in a liquor distributorship and then arranged for him to buy a tiny parcel next to Caesars Palace that was owned by Howard Hughes. News of the sale to Wynn made front-page headlines because it was the first piece of Las Vegas property the reclusive Hughes had ever sold; what also got noticed was the price Caesars paid for the lot 11 months later to keep Wynn from building his own casino there ($2.25 million). Wynn walked away with a nice $766,000 profit. He used that money to accumulate more stock...
Although residents last night said they supported building the store, some expressed concern with the specifics of the plan, including the size of the store, the noise and traffic it would generate, the rezoning requirements, safety surrounding it and a proposed liquor store...