Word: seagrams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bendix 's former veep lands at Seagram...
Canadian firms have long done business in the U.S. The Bank of Montreal helped start the Chicago Clearing House in the 19th century, and companies like Alcan Aluminium, Seagram and Massey-Ferguson have been selling south of their border for decades. But the big push started in the 1970s. Over the past decade, Canadian entrepreneurs have bought U.S. newspapers, drugstores, cable television franchises, office towers and oil-drilling leases. Just last month Hiram Walker-Consumers Home Ltd. of Toronto paid more than $600 million for about 60% of Denver Wildcatter Marvin Davis' oil empire, including wells in Wyoming, Oklahoma...
Harlan (Dennis Lipscomb) thinks he's Bogie: swatting his cigarette lighter open, swigging Seagram's from a pint bottle, talking tough to the little lady. He's not. He's a middle-aged shlemiel of an accountant-a surly, sulky Bob Newhart-with a restless young wife and a fatal case of paranoia. Lillian (Deborah Harry) thinks she's Betty Bacall: purple nightgowns, lots of makeup and suggestive patter, gentleman friend on the side. She's not. She's a housewife who cannot keep house, and whose only escape from her drab apartment...
Officials announced the gift at a morning press conference at 17 Quincy St., where the atmosphere was chummy until one reporter raised the ethical question of Seagram's donating money to study alcoholism...
Officials announced the gift at a morning press conference at 17 Quincy St., where the atmosphere was chummy until one reporter raised the ethical question of Seagram's donating money to study alcoholism...