Word: obtainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rejecting Paramount's bid and going its own way, Time contends that the $175-a-share offer was never really credible. Nicholas noted that it was contingent on "substantial conditions" that included Paramount's ability to obtain financing and the approval of regulatory agencies...
...leave Time alone: "On a personal level, I'm disappointed that I can't rely on you as a man of your word. Live and learn." Munro said the Paramount offer consisted of "smoke and mirrors," since it was subject to several conditions that included Paramount's ability to obtain financing and regulatory approval, a process almost certain to take longer than the Time-Warner proposition had. Such conditions, Munro argued, could not be met by the July 5 deadline that Paramount set on its bid for Time shares. The letter added, "Hostile takeovers are a little like wars: once...
...residents, who make up 98% of the population, the first-class passports that would allow them to settle in Britain if they choose. As citizens of a British Dependent Territory, the Hong Kong Chinese cannot emigrate to the United Kingdom without special permission, which has become increasingly difficult to obtain. While a House of Commons committee is expected to recommend loosening the restrictions, most Britons fear that such a move would lead to an unwelcome new wave of immigration...
Fairness also has little to do with the system of guandao, or official profiteering, that permeates Chinese society. On a small scale, leaders at all levels routinely use their positions to obtain free restaurant meals or theater tickets. In a grander manner, officials buy scarce raw materials such as coal and timber at low, subsidized prices and sell them on the open market for handsome profits...
...around the impasse would be for the powerful House Ways and Means Committee to obtain the records, as it is empowered to do under Section 6103. But the committee's influential chairman, Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, has not cooperated, apparently out of concern that embarrassing disclosures about the IRS could damage its ability to collect taxes...