Word: selling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then the Japanese have taken over roughly that share. Last week a group of seven American computer companies, including archrivals IBM and Digital Equipment, announced a move that might help the U.S. recoup some of its lost ground. The companies will create a joint venture that will manufacture and sell dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips using IBM technology...
...Paramount were in fact successful, the deal would leave it with a heavy debt burden. Although Davis has vowed he would not dismember Time after an acquisition, the pressure to sell assets might grow in response to the need to make large interest payments. In raising the stakes, Paramount acknowledged that its takeover proposal is conditional to, among other things, Time calling off its acquisition of Warner and rescinding the share exchange already executed and on Paramount's ability to obtain adequate financing. To cover the cost of acquiring Time's stock and meet merger-related expenses, Paramount said...
...books, diapers and the use of a Nintendo video game. A pediatrician is on call round the clock. "Our business has doubled," says general manager Stan Bromley, who began emphasizing service to children about two years ago. "We gave away 1,200 comic books in 1988 -- more than we sell orders of caviar...
...plan, which will cost some $157 billion over the next ten years, will allow the Government to close down or sell off more than 500 insolvent savings institutions. To reform the rest of the thrift industry, the bill tightens capital requirements so that S & L owners would have more of their own money on the line. Specifically, the bill calls for all thrifts immediately to post $1.50 in reserves for each $100 in deposits and reach a level of $3 in reserves...
...they want. They can install scrubbers on smokestacks, switch to burning low-sulfur coal or adopt new technology for cleaner burning of high-sulfur coal. Moreover, they can trade what would amount to pollution rights. If one utility cuts sulfur- dioxide emissions more than the law requires, it can sell the unused portion of the emissions it is allowed to another company that is having trouble meeting its standard. While the total reduction would be the same, both companies would cut costs: the seller because it would get extra money, and the buyer because it might be less expensive...