Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where the Rich Invest...
Coming Home has at least the charm of its political clarity; it is a straightforwardly and movingly antiwar movie that is saved from being a mere tract by its rich performances and its compassion for the Americans who fought and suffered in the war. The Deer Hunter is far more elusive-more forceful, less coherent, more artistically ambitious but also dangerously close to political simplism, historical inaccuracy and moral kitsch...
Reader (free circ. 97,000) now regularly runs to more than 100 ad-rich pages a week, and grossed almost $2 million in 1978. Ad revenues at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Reader (no relation) were up 410% in 1977 and 298% last year. Seattle's Weekly (circ. 15,000) won a contract to print the program for the visiting King Tut exhibit, and the Ithaca (N. Y.) Times and the local Chamber of Commerce collaborate to publish a calendar every summer. There is even an alternative chain: the Times/Advocate Newspapers, with papers serving western Massachusetts (circ...
...minnow may wind up choking on the whale. In fact, Brascan may well be making its brassy bid in order to become bigger and thus harder to be swallowed up itself by a hostile outsider. Cash-rich firms like Brascan are commonly candidates for acquisition by some larger company that after taking over uses all that cash to finance the deal. Almost the same moment that Brascan revealed its bid for Woolwjrth, Canada's Edper Equities, an investment company that is controlled by Edward and Peter Bronfman, cousins of the Seagram whisky chiefs, said that it wanted to increase...
After the men's tennis match with Columbia Saturday, the Harvard team members sat in coach Dave Fish's office stuffing their faces with rich brownies and sumptious chocolate cake that had been birthday gifts to Fish. But it was earlier in the day that Fish received the present he really wanted: his squad crushed Columbia, 7-2, on the Soldiers Field courts...