Word: offer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the new offer, a subsidiary of Stop & Shop would pay the city $1 million for the road. To ensure that the company did not use it for other purposes, the city would have the option of buying back the land if the company did not build a grocery within 10 years...
...battle cry of all raiders is to "maximize shareholder value," but few of them blew the trumpets like Edelman. In 1987 he taught a business course at Columbia University that he aptly dubbed "The Art of War." Edelman offered $100,000 to any student who could find a mismanaged company for the professor to chew up. Columbia nixed the offer, but Edelman's image as a buccaneer flourished. That same year he served as a role model for the fiendishly greedy Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. "I hunched in my seat as I watched that movie," says Edelman...
Gorbachev also agreed to reopen diplomatic relations with the Vatican and discussed a possible papal visit to the Soviet Union sometime in the future. John Paul hedged on that, making his acceptance conditional upon some evidence of real improvement in the situation of Soviet Catholics. But the Pope did offer his endorsement of perestroika, all the while pressing home his "expectation" that Ukrainian Catholics would be allowed to exercise their faith fully and openly. The Ukrainian Church, which follows the Eastern liturgy but claims the Pope as its spiritual leader, was banned and driven underground by Stalin...
...said, the Soviet government can offer advice in shaping change and assure that its pace is not too rapid. "Structure for reform, but not for revolution," he said...
...PBHA has to take stands." By getting as many people as possible involved in the community, PBHA is making the most powerful statement it can possibly make. Why should this organization attract attention for their potentially divisive and alienating political beliefs when they have so many valuable gifts to offer? David Rettig...