Word: rental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This rental progam set up by the Fogg is one way the Museum tries to reach out to students who may only have heard of the Fogg in connection with House formals...
These days, the Fogg can't afford to be quite as daring, and it has probably run out of wall space for student frescoes. But the rental program provides a modern option which brings students closer to original art. Every fall, a frenzy ensues in the Fogg's courtyard as undergraduates, graduates and faculty thumb through dolly carts, searching for the original print they want to look at for the next year, Cohn explains...
Hours before a deadline to make another bid for Paramount Communications, Viacom, Paramount's preferred suitor, announced an agreement to merge with video-rental giant Blockbuster Entertainment. This combination will provide Viacom with the financing needed to counter QVC Network's hostile bid for Paramount.Viacom's new nearly $10 billion offer, though valued at slightly less than QVC's, raises the cash portion of the Viacom bid to $6.4 billion, about $700 million more than the cash in QVC's offer -- which QVC is free to increase...
...these executives act within hours on issues that might previously have taken weeks or months to be resolved -- if ever. Some major topics: Saturn's no-nonsense pay- what's-on-the-sticker pricing; a leasing campaign specially aimed at the California market, a fast exit from profit-draining rental discounts. Even smaller requests get a speedy response. A third shift at a Canadian truck plant? Four engineers needed for a special project? Done...
...outside and bathes the beige limestone halls in a rich, silky light. To his critics, Pei responds in the best tradition of the king-picked artist: "The mixing of art, culture and commerce is not impossible," he says. Besides, the 76-year-old Chinese-American architect points out, the rental income from the shops was necessary to finance an underground garage...