Word: reade
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Workers, however, find little time to actually sit down and read the tantalizing reams of pages that flow through the store. Both owners have labored virtually nonstop to get the new location up and running...
...strength and weakness of this striking work is that it reads like a crime novel. But its protagonist, Jay Carsey, at age 47 really was president of Charles County Community College in Maryland. And on May 19, 1982, days before commencement, he really did withdraw $28,000 from the bank, drive to the airport, mail several letters, down some vodkas and board a flight. One of the letters was a brief note of resignation. One was a short statement to his wife that he was leaving because he was a "physical and psychological disaster." A postcard, to a close friend...
...Joseph Pulitzer and controlled by his descendants, seems entrenched (circ. 378,255). The competing Globe- Democrat, which announced its closing three times in three years, finally folded in 1986. But Ingersoll contends that the P.D. fails to serve the market. "Two-thirds of the households do not read the Post-Dispatch," he claims. "The great challenge is that two-thirds, the unwashed, if you will, who are simply not interested." To reach them, the Sun will be a color- splashed tabloid "for today's video world." Post-Dispatch chairman Joseph Pulitzer Jr., who disputes Ingersoll's figures, declares, "We defend...
...Toronto trading in the company's shares was halted for three days while the firm scrambled to meet a Friday deadline for repayment of loans from its U.S. investment bankers: First Boston, Paine Webber and Dillon, Read. Campeau averted the crisis by arranging a $250 million loan from real estate giant Olympia & York, a major Campeau stockholder owned by Toronto's Reichmann family. As a result, Campeau's controlling interest in the firm he founded in 1949 slipped below a majority stake, from 53% to about 43%, while the Reichmann holdings increased from 24.5% to some...
Foreign service professionals have loudly criticized their boss for freezing them out and surrounding himself with longtime aides. "He's running a mini- NSC, not State," complained a senior diplomat. "We learn what our policy is when we read it in the newspapers...