Word: selling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paramount's raid by converting the Time-Warner deal from a stock swap, which required shareholder approval, to a leveraged purchase, which needed no such vote. Paramount Chairman Martin Davis said he would "continue aggressively to build our core business in publishing and entertainment." Last week Paramount agreed to sell its financial-services subsidiary, Associates First Capital, to Ford Motor for $3.35 billion, which would give the communications company more cash for stalking other takeover candidates...
...contend with up to $14 billion in new debt that was incurred in the takeover. But President N.J. Nicholas denied speculation that the combined company would be forced into a major selloff of assets to bring down the debt level. "We are under no pressure to cut, or sell, or do anything," Nicholas said. "We are going to grow our way out of this...
...Being the President's son puts you in the limelight," he says. "While in the limelight, you might as well sell tickets." So on a typical evening recently, while going through his personal pregame drill, he eyeballed the stands. "Looks like around 25,000 tonight," he estimated. That's the number the club needed to break 1 million in attendance, a milestone that came later in previous seasons. Later the gate was announced: 26,244. Though the Rangers < were losing a close game, the new owner beamed. "I like selling tickets," says Bush the businessman. "There...
...plan exposed a rift within the Administration over trade policy. Commerce Department officials argued that easing export controls would allow U.S. companies to compete with computer makers in such countries as Taiwan and Singapore, which already sell relatively advanced machines to Soviet-bloc buyers. But Defense Secretary Richard Cheney, who advocates strict controls on the transfer of American technology to Moscow, warned that the Soviets would use the U.S. computers for military purposes. Nonetheless, a Cheney aide said the Defense Secretary would not ask Bush to reverse the Commerce Department decision...
...without sounding quaint or condescending. His Kansas is certainly less exciting than the one Truman Capote invented nearly 25 years ago, when he absented himself from Manhattan's society lunch circuit to pioneer the true-crime genre with In Cold Blood. The modest truths conveyed by Parker will not sell as well but may last longer...