Word: robertses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Realtors and tour-group operators had less cause for cheer. Rental Agent Donald Roberts heard the news on his radio and thought, "Oh no, there goes everything." The owner of an Olympic accommodations service, Roberts had recently received reservations for a tour group of 1,200 from Yugoslavia and for...
Last week Esmark, the big Chicago conglomerate, announced that it was approving a $2.4 billion takeover by Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co., a New York City investment firm. A bidding war for Esmark, whose brand names include Avis car rental and Max Factor cosmetics, might get started. The price of Esmark...
The figures have spawned protests from supporters of the Reagan tax cuts, including such leading supply-side theorists as Paul Craig Roberts, an economics professor at Georgetown University, and George Gilder, author of Wealth and Poverty and program director of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. They argue that the...
Supply-siders point out that the amount of tax paid by the rich jumped after Presidents Harding and Coolidge cut tax rates in the 1920s and after Kennedy and Johnson did so in the early 1960s. Between 1963 and 1965 the maximum tax rate dropped from 91% to 70%, but...
In 1972 the paper hired Eugene Roberts, a former New York Times national editor, and over the next decade he directed one of the most remarkable turnarounds, in quality and profitability, in the history of American journalism. The paper won six consecutive Pulitzer Prizes from 1975 through 1980 in six...