Word: selling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...owned by its producers, Lucy and husband Desi Arnaz (who called their outfit Desilu Productions), rather than owned by the network. Today networks pay a show's producers for the rights to broadcast an episode a limited number of times. After a few years, the producer can then sell his series as reruns to stations across the country and make millions more. Lucy started all this, and has made up to $100 million in the process...
...city was very excited about it," Spiegelman said. She said Harvard chose to sell to HRI after consulting Assistant City Manager Michael Rosenberg...
...cocaine through Panama to the U.S. Noriega also allegedly permitted the cartel to set up a cocaine-processing plant in Panama and to temporarily relocate its headquarters there after the murder of Colombia's Justice Minister in 1985. The general, Kellner charged, had "utilized his position to sell the country of Panama to drug traffickers...
...wake of October's crash, hefty trading losses and a slowdown in business have forced investment firms to cut back their payrolls and curb their appetites for expansion. At the same time, the First Boston episode highlights an increasingly common Wall Street struggle between the traders who buy and sell securities and the dealmakers who negotiate and finance takeovers...
...Wall Street into a debacle of historic proportions. The SEC identified at least three critical moments on Black Monday when futures-related program trading accounted for more than 60% of the volume on the Big Board, as traders caught with plummeting futures contracts rushed to sell the underlying stocks. At the height of the crash, the SEC suggested, the tail was wagging...