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Word: reals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kerkorian believes that MGM can go nowhere but up. His operating policy for the company: "Clear out the nonproductive items and keep the productive ones, and you have a successful business." MGM began last year to sell off its real estate holdings, which are scattered from Culver City, Calif., to London. In order to realize some quick profits, Kerkorian is likely to dispose of more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Return of Smiling Jim | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...days after the court decision. In a speech in Manhattan, he called Mitchell's statistics "carefully selected but unfortunately misleading." He pointed out that the asset concentration among the top 140 companies in 1963 was the same as it had been in 1932. Geneen also contended that the real antitrust issue is the specific amount of concentration of power within an industry and that the conglomerate approach of buying into many industries does not involve that kind of concentration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conglomerates: Antitrusters Lose a Round | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...capital; he is willing to pay $600 for less space in an area that has commendable schools and is not more than one hour's commuting time away from Manhattan-but cannot find anything suitable. He is also willing to buy a house. "When I tell real estate agents that I can only go up to $60,000," he says, "they just laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: WHY HOUSING COSTS ARE GOING THROUGH THE ROOF | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Romney's program is no panacea, but it is likely to attack some of the real obstacles to better and cheaper shelter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: WHY HOUSING COSTS ARE GOING THROUGH THE ROOF | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...Françoise Mallet-Joris's observation is unusually wary and intense, perhaps because her creatures move in a society held rigid by theology where diabolism is as real as rock-a milieu not merely strange but very nearly incomprehensible to a mind formed in the 20th century. A modern student can read the documents-the witch-burners were articulate enough-but statistics and dry records are unlikely to convey to him any idea of the atmosphere that hangs for days, according to the author, in a town square after a witch has been burned. Is the smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clay and Fire | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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