Word: reap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airline business in the wake of bids for the companies that own Northwest and United Airlines. The takeover-stock mania has coincided with the return of program trading, a system in which brokerage houses use computers to buy and sell giant blocks of stock to reap quick profits from disparities in price between the equities and futures markets. Restrictions on program trading were imposed after the crash to limit the market's volatility, but have since been removed...
...deals an investor group, often headed by a company's own executives, uses bank loans and high-interest junk bonds to buy a firm and take it private. Almost without exception, the group immediately slashes costs, lays off workers and sells divisions to reduce debt; the managers may eventually reap huge profits by selling the streamlined company back to public investors...
Lands' End, J. Crew and Tweeds reap handsome sales by offering preppie wear to baby boomers who are partial to natural fibers but too busy to go to the mall...
Most winemakers favor AVAs in theory. Top-of-the-line varietals (wines named for the specific grapes used to make them) reap the industry's biggest profits these days. But Napa vineyards can cost $50,000 an acre, and prime grapes go for as much as $1,800 a ton in good years; accordingly, vintners argue that labeling a bottle as the product of a prestigious AVA like Napa Valley or Sonoma County makes the wine more appealing to buyers. Vintners whose acreage lies within the suggested borders of the four new Napa appellations (Rutherford, Rutherford Bench, Oakville and Oakville...
...early as 1987, Warner Books chairman William Sarnoff quipped at the booksellers' convention in Washington that soon "we'll all just meet at the office of the lone remaining publisher." At this point, according to James Milliot, editor of the industry newsletter BP Report, the top six publishing houses reap 60% of all adult-book revenues, in contrast...