Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than the debilitating bond judgment. Pennzoil can no longer slap liens, as it was reportedly preparing to do, on up to $8 billion in Texaco assets. With $3 billion already in reserve, Texaco no longer has to pay $630 million worth of annual interest on $7 billion in normal business debts. Nor is it required to pay dividends on 242.3 million outstanding common shares, an estimated saving this year of nearly $727 million...
...number of faculty Bryn Mawr employs will be reduced if the proposal passes, though all the cuts will occur through "normal attrition," Myers said. No faculty will be fired, but some posts will not be refilled when the people who now hold them leave or retire, she explained...
While Lethal Weapon (Chestnut Hill) does have some humorous moments in it, the really funny thing is how efficiently it exploits the supposedly normal moviegoing public. Guns, explosions, aircraft, firearms, things blowing up, helicopters, small arms, balls of hot expanding gas--Lethal Weapon is like a Borden Condensed Action Film, pasteurized to remove the sex. Having said this--and Dewitt thinks it needs to be said--Weapon is, despite its obviousness, an enjoyable film...
Under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy law, Texaco will be allowed to continue normal business operations. Its cash flow could actually improve because it will still receive sales revenue and yet be afforded relief from interest payments on its $9.1 billion in debts. But it could also lose a great deal of business because of uncertainty surrounding the Pennzoil case. Many of the jobs held by the company's 52,000 employees could be threatened. Moreover, Texaco will be under the strict supervision of a federal court. It will, for example, be forbidden to buy major oil reserves...
...while I thought I might have a story on the the subject of the world's most pretentious donut shop. Only Cambridge, I thought, could boast a java-and-danish nook with a ridiculous French name and prices four times the normal exchange rate. But no one else seemed to notice any irregularity, and by the time the "Au Bon Pain" and "Vie de France" explosion was over, "patisserie" signs were as common as lesbian poets on the streets of Cambridge. It just wasn't news...