Word: rental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Tenants Union, in a letter addressed to Harvard Real Estate (HRE) president Sally Zeckhauser, this week demanded that the University make public its long-term plans for renovating the rental properties it owns in the city...
...that were made during the 1960s and '70s when the firm, like many other big American corporations, tried to boost earnings by diversifying into fields far outside its traditional lines of business. The entertainment and broadcasting company, for example, bought Random House publishing in 1966 and Hertz car rental in 1967. RCA's biggest acquisition of all was in 1979, when it paid $1.3 billion, or 40% over market value, for C.I.T. Financial Corp., a consumer loan and insurance firm. To raise the money, the company had to borrow heavily on the commercial paper market, where big corporations...
Receipts from other sources represented 12.0% of University income, an increase from 10.6% one year earlier. This category of income increased by 28.2% to $53.7 million. This large increase reflects substantial growth in the University's housing, conference, and publications programs as well as additional space rental...
...ruling will be appealed, it strikes down the section of the law that was for more than a year the only bulwark against condominium conversion in much of the city and remains the only barrier to conversion of perhaps as many as 100 units in "hybrid" (half-condo, half-rental) buildings...
...Year. The mean number of prerecorded tapes rented by a VCR owner. In 1979, the smart money was still on software; prerecorded tapes will be like records, albeit (at an average price of $69) expensive records. Nowadays the smart money has wised up, and the action has moved to rentals. Why pay the price to own Ordinary People when you can pay a fraction of the cost (sometimes as little as a dollar a day) to rent it? Now the movie companies want in. "We couldn't continue to invest millions of dollars to feed this market...