Word: recoups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recoup, Osborne has designed a version of its new Executive model that will run IBM programs. But getting the machine to market has not been easy. When news of the Executive leaked last spring, sales of the firm's original machine, the Osborne 1, slowed even as the company was dropping the price from $1,795 to $1,295, and profits evaporated. With the IBM-compatible Executive now due in November, the ever confident Osborne says, "It's such a fast-moving business that in two months you can be flying as high as ever." Others wonder whether...
...June when stocks were at their highest. If the total seems breathtaking, it must be measured against the fact that a decade and more of inflation had so seriously eroded stock values that for many investors, the bull market's gains enabled them to do little more than recoup losses. Just to keep up with inflation, the record 1051 Dow should have stood at 2445 by November...
Chances appear slim that investors stuck with Whoops 4 and 5 bonds will ever recoup their losses. Says Bettie Fullmer: "The only people who are going to make money are the lawyers." Many victims have already sold the securities at a tiny fraction of their face value to speculators, some of whom are betting that the Government will eventually bail out Whoops, giving them a big profit...
...putt for a birdie; at the second, a 4-wood within 15 ft., an eagle; at the fourth, a 2-iron that scarcely missed being a hole in one. Starting one shot behind Stadler and Floyd, he now led the tournament by three. Watson's game plan to recoup two strokes against the leaders had been to shoot 34 on the front nine, which is exactly what he did, only to fall four behind Ballesteros...
Ford's publishers spent more than ten times as much on legal costs as they will recoup from the $12,500 award for damages. The sum that they were granted represents the fee that was lost when TIME, which had purchased first magazine publication rights, withdrew under a contractual provision after portions of the book appeared in the Nation. Owen suggested in his decision that only an "oversight" in the copyright law prevented him from awarding the publishers their legal costs. The publishers described the battle as one of principle. Said Brooks Thomas, president of Harper & Row: "This...