Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when President Theodore Roosevelt was faced with the kidnaping of an American, Ion Perdicaris, by a Moroccan bandit named Ahmed Raisuli. Legend has it that Roosevelt pronounced a famous ultimatum: "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead." (It is less well remembered that Perdicaris was freed only after the Moroccan government paid ransom.) But a poll conducted last Thursday for TIME/ CNN by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman indicates substantial public recognition that a big stick may not be the answer to an explosive and delicate situation. Among those questioned, 45% said the U.S. should retaliate in this instance with military action...
...infusions of cash and care paid off. The high school graduation rate has risen from 73.4% to 77.5%, and the percentage of students going on to Arkansas colleges, just 38.7% in 1982, has grown to 44.5%. All this has helped Clinton, 42, a boyish-looking Rhodes scholar with presidential ambitions, earn a national reputation as a wizard of school reform. "I feel real good about where we have come in the past 6 1/2 years," says the Governor...
Leveraged buyouts could be in trouble during a downturn for many reasons. Investors in some LBOs may simply have paid too high a price or accepted overly rosy projections about their ability to repay debt. Other buyouts might flounder because investment bankers arranged the deals with more concern for the fat fees they produced than for the soundness of the transactions, according to critics of Wall Street. Some studies in LBO failure...
...cost-conscious truckers cut back on new orders, Fruehauf had to strain to meet interest payments, which had climbed to $101 million a year. As other divisions faltered, Fruehauf embarked on desperate cost-cutting moves and fire sales that have hollowed out the 71-year-old company. "They paid way too much, and then their markets turned against them," says George Malley, a former head of the trailer division...
...response was that Congress' failure to pass the pay raise made his job--which would have paid $120,000 under the proposed legislation--an $80,000 job. Small beans for someone who could likely be making over $100,000 elsewhere. And, he said, "Remember John Tower. Who wants to go through that scrutiny...