Word: selling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Pickens is now Koito's largest shareholder, analysts doubt that the Texan can take over the company. Reason: most of Koito's shares lie firmly in the hands of corporate allies who rarely sell their holdings. Since Japanese companies are not allowed to own their own stock, Pickens might try to sell his stake to one of Koito's allies. The Texan claims he simply saw Koito as a company with potential for improvement. Says he: "We want to work with Koito. New blood often helps...
...council created the endowment in 1983 as part of the body's efforts to pressure the University to sell its $163.8 million of South Africa-related stocks...
Although North alone may take the fall in court for the disastrous foreign policy decision of an entire administration to sell arms to Iran and divert the funds to help the Contras, it is now abundantly clear that this gung-ho lieutenant colonel was hardly a "loose cannon," but merely one cog in a comprehensive administration policy to subvert Congressional authority and deceive the American people...
Austin (Kevin Connell) is an uptight Ivy grad struggling desperately to sell his romantic "period piece" to a Hollywood producer. Lee, (Alex Norman) his older brother, is a macho, beer-guzzling thief with considerable disdain for Austin's sheltered intellectual life. When the brothers get holed up together in their mother's house, sparks fly. Insults fly. Silverware, toasters and golf clubs fly, too. By the end of Sam Shepard's True West, the kitchen is a disaster area worthy of any Harvard undergrad's living quarters. Not even the cast from Risky Business could clean up this mess before...
...latest of these follows the time-honored maxim that you can sell anything to Americans if you can convince them that it will make them more sexually appealing. The most recent series of magazine ads shows a pair of beautiful men or women discussing the attractive aspects of their newest romantic prospect, especially his or her taste in scotch...