Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Your interplay with bandleader Paul Shaffer has become a major part of the show. Are you good friends...
...some of Japan's largest construction companies think they have an answer: huge developments beneath the earth's surface where millions of people could work, shop and, perhaps eventually, make their homes. "An underground city is no longer a dream. We expect it to actually materialize in the early part of the next century," says Tetsuya Hanamura, the chief of Taisei Corp.'s proposed development...
...that things may be different under George Bush. The expectation in foreign policy circles is that instead of trying to make Ortega cry uncle, the Bush Administration -- by necessity as much as by choice -- will approach Nicaragua with something less drastic in mind than toppling its government. In large part, that will happen because the contras are in suspended animation, not demobilized but with little hope of renewed military aid from the U.S. Instead, the U.S. will put its weight behind the 18-month-old Arias peace plan, as well as explore the possibility of direct talks with the Sandinistas...
Thanks to hefty tax breaks that the Government allows for ESOPs, investors who launch a takeover can reduce their borrowing costs if they set aside part of the stock for employees. At the same time, corporations seeking to repel raiders can use an ESOP as a way to put a chunk of the company into relatively friendly hands. "Every corporate treasurer is looking at it," says Paul Mazzilli, a principal at the Morgan Stanley investment firm. In recent months, three major corporations -- J.C. Penney, Ralston Purina and Texaco -- spent a total of $1.75 billion on ESOPs to shore up their...
...ESOP program has boosted the company's performance, in part because managers have put their employees' new motivation to good use. Avis has also found that its customers support employee ownership, which the company touts in its ads. One TV spot shows a satisfied customer pointing to an Avis rental clerk and saying, "I know the owner...