Word: sales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home rule petition, if passed by the city council and the state legislature, would circumvent the court ruling by giving Cambridge the jurisdiction to ban the sale of individual apartments from a block of housing...
...first major sale of assets since Time Inc. acquired Warner Communications last July, the merged company agreed last week to shed a subsidiary that had turned out to be a disappointing performer. Time Warner said it will sell its Illinois-based textbook publishing unit, Scott, Foresman, for $455 million to Harper & Row Publishers, which is owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. When it bought Scott, Foresman in 1986, Time paid $520 million and assumed $50 million in debt. Time Warner's losses on the Scott, Foresman investment will total $175 million, which will be written...
Time Warner had decided that the textbook division failed to fit well with its other publishing and entertainment businesses. At the same time, the sale will help reduce the $12 billion in debt that the company will assume when its merger is completed, sometime around year...
...female destitution. In The Divorce Revolution (1985), sociologist Lenore Weitzman showed how no-fault divorce laws -- passed in 43 states, largely in response to feminist demand -- have benefited men and impoverished women. Weitzman found that as a result of these laws, which largely eliminated alimony and often forced the sale of the family home, women and their children typically suffer a 73% drop in their standard of living after a divorce while the ex-husband's living standard jumps...
...provide Larew with military and economic data that will prove this beyond a doubt. Egypt receives nearly the same amount of U.S. foreign aid as Israel, though it shows no signs of any sort of democracy. The administration is currently sending legislation through Congress that will permit the sale of M-1 tanks to Saudi Arabia. Remember, the U.S. granted Iran most-favored nation status under the Shah, when our stategic interests so dictated. Moreover, Larew's statement, that oil-producing gulf states are becoming more geopolitically important, is simply false. The days of the oil-weapon are fast declining...