Word: multibillions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time cost-of-living freeze on Social Security. But with the hiring of tough-talking Lobbyist Jack Carlson as executive director, the group began to harden its stance, partly to prevent other organizations of the elderly from stealing the thunder. Next on AARP's agenda: a multibillion-dollar proposal for federal insurance to cover long- term at-home or nursing-home care. While other lobbies are often content with dumping a blizzard of preprinted postcards on Capitol Hill, AARP members tend to write their own letters. "AARP is the equivalent of an 800-lb. gorilla," says Congressman Hal Daub...
Despite the plethora of poorly designed and shabbily constructed buildings, there have been some intriguing additions. The most stunning development project in London, indeed in Western Europe, is the multibillion-dollar regeneration of the Docklands, the decayed wharf district along the River Thames in the City's east end. Today the government-sponsored project boasts attractive apartments and offices, and even an airport...
...White House of an end to be achieved in the Gulf, or of a recalulcation of our reason for being there in light of the evidence that our presence seems to be helping the Iranians. And our forces in the area are sadly ill-suited for their job: multibillion dollar supercarriers and their escorts are not quite what you want chasing down Revolutionary Guards in glorified Boston Whalers...
...roughly $500 per sq. ft. Those prices are still a bargain compared with costs in Tokyo, where office towers sell for an astronomical $20,000 or more per sq. ft. -- on those rare occasions when anything comes up for sale. Says Shigeru Kobayashi, owner of Japan's multibillion-dollar Shuwa real estate empire: "Bond buyers are holding paper, but I have buildings and land. That's the future." Kobayashi's son Takashi, head of the family firm's U.S. subsidiary, controls 26 U.S. buildings worth some $2 billion. Among them: the ARCO Plaza in Los Angeles (bought for $620 million...
...summer home. But despite his fondness for the unusual antique, the onetime Treasury Secretary and U.S. energy czar is no Don Quixote of the business world. There is nothing fanciful about his vision of assembling a financial empire in the Pacific Basin. In fact, Simon has helped mold a multibillion-dollar conglomerate that includes the largest savings and loan association in Honolulu and a merchant bank in Los Angeles. Last week an investor group led by Simon agreed to pay $157 million for Western Federal Savings & Loan, the fifth California thrift the group has tried to acquire within a year...