Word: loads
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When Time Warner last week put forth a novel financing plan designed to reduce its debt load, Wall Street responded with boos. But an even more widespread reaction was a baffled "Huh?" In an arrangement called a rights offering, the entertainment and information firm, the parent company of TIME, said it hoped to raise as much as $3.5 billion by selling current stockholders the rights to buy 34.5 million new shares. The price will depend on how many accept the offer...
...company's stunning success has bulldozed others out of an industry in which more than 350 major firms are trying to compete. Channel Home Centers, a New Jersey-based chain that has been saddled with a $268 million load of debt since it went private in 1986, entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy last January and plans to sell or close 34 of its 86 stores. Hechinger Co., a major Maryland- based chain of 115 centers, lost $800,000 in last year's fourth quarter before rebounding with a $7.2 million profit in the first quarter this year. That was down from...
Gates' teaching load next semester will...
When the Central Artery was erected in 1959, it was designed to carry approximately 75,000 vehicles daily. It now carries a daily load of more than...
...than when I came in," says Bok. "You put all that together and what you get is that there is simply a larger volume of activities for people at that sort of supra-faculty level to deal with, and so you need another person to share the load...