Word: sales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the conditions of the sale, Black Rock will remain forever wild, according to Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54. Harvard and the Golden Foundation will both contribute to a new endowment to maintain the property...
...last Tuesday, officers investigating a report of gunfire only two blocks from one of the Panthers' original headquarters found him dying in the street. On Friday police arrested a suspected drug dealer, who told them he shot Newton in self-defense after they argued over a cocaine sale. Investigators found no gun near Newton's body...
...yellow signs are familiar landmarks on American highways, will soon take on a British accent. Last week Memphis-based Holiday Corp. said that it will sell its North American chain of more than 1,400 Holiday Inns for $2.2 billion to British pub-and-brewery giant Bass PLC. The sale completes a global acquisition for the London-based company, which last year bought the rights to Holiday Inn franchises outside North America...
Holiday decided to sell its 37-year-old namesake so that the company can focus on its newer ventures, which include three hotel chains (Embassy Suites, Hampton Inns, Homewood Suites) and Harrah's casinos. The sale will also allow Holiday to reduce more than $2 billion of debt, most of it incurred during a 1987 battle to fend off a takeover bid by Donald Trump...
...dollar in January, 160,000 in July, 1 million in August. A kind of madness swept the country. People carried suitcases of money to a store to buy a sausage. And the mark kept falling, to an all-time low of 4.2 trillion that November. Everything was for sale, all savings were destroyed, and nothing seemed to have any value any longer. No less than military defeat and social upheaval, the hyperinflation undermined all the traditional securities of German society...