Word: procession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process is as simple as getting your snapshot taken in a dime-store photo booth. But instead of spitting out a strip of black-and-white pictures, the vending machines from Short Takes, a Minneapolis company, record an instant video greeting. Customers pay $10 for a blank cassette, which they insert in a slot in the machine. Then a camera in the booth records ten minutes of monologue, mugging or whatever message the customer wants to send. A mailing envelope is included...
...arrangement would give Warner stockholders a premium, reflecting the fact that in effect Time was acquiring a slightly larger company with many more outstanding shares, but would leave Time's stockholders with only the prospect that their stock would appreciate over the long run. Moreover, the process of getting Government approval and working out legal details required a 3 1/2-month gap between the announcement and the stockholders' vote on the deal, which left enough time for a hostile bidder to marshal his forces...
...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 they start, it's impossible...
...makeup of humans. "It's amazing if true, and would make our work much easier," says Steven Holtzman of Embryogen Corp., a biotechnology firm with labs in Princeton, N.J. But no one is about to abandon the standard technique until other scientists complete tests of the Italians' work -- a process that is already well under...
...President- elect has yet to define a concrete economic plan, the situation seems bound to deteriorate further. Even Argentina's generals, who have never been shy about staging coups before, appear reluctant to intervene for fear of saddling themselves with the blame for economic ruin. "We are in a process of decline," says Federico Zorraquin, president of the Banco Commercial del Norte. "No one knows where it will...