Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worth checking out if the other stores don't please you, but there is no real reason to go to Barillari, unless you're in the neighborhood. The other stores have everything this one offers, and they are all closer...
...offer, exploited the dissatisfactions of many on Wall Street who had long cherished the notion that Time was worth more in pieces than whole. Since the merger agreement was reached on March 3, some investors had complained that the terms provided Time shareholders with no immediate financial reward. Reason: the agreement called for a debt-free swap of 0.465 shares of Time stock for each Warner share...
Paying heed to the cataclysmic outcome of that refusal, the Kremlin calibrated its response with great care. Early in the week, the Congress issued a timid resolution urging that "wisdom, sound reason and a balanced approach" prevail in China. Later, caution became less evident. "We hadn't expected this," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, adding that his government was "extremely dismayed" over the events in China. But Moscow's options were limited. After almost two decades of exchanging ideological insults, the Chinese were scarcely prepared to accept a lecture from the Soviets. In any case, admonitions would only feed...
This spring the Personal Watercraft Industry Association started distributing safety videos, posters and user instructions to dealerships. The association has also drawn up its own suggested regulations, which include a minimum age of 14 for riders of privately owned vessels and 16 for rentals. "The reason it's been a zoo out there is because there has not been any regulation or guidance," says Roger Hagie, chairman of the P.W.I.A...
...reason Sousuke Uno got the Prime Minister's job in the wake of the Recruit influence-peddling scandal was that he was widely regarded as Mr. Clean. Last week that reputation was impugned from an unexpected quarter: a former geisha who claimed to have been his lover. SCOOP: A SCANDAL INVOLVING PRIME MINISTER UNO, shrieked a headline in the weekly magazine Sunday Mainichi. In an interview, the 40-year-old, otherwise unidentified former geisha said Uno paid her about $21,000 during a five-month affair that began in October 1985. She portrayed Uno as bullying and self-aggrandizing...