Word: selling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...food business will be sold to pay down the leverages, but then you also take the risk of not being able to sell these companies. You see the trouble that Beatrice is running into...
...There is risk. Less at $75 per share than at $100 per share. At $100 per share, I will have to sell off more businesses. But our tobacco business can stand a lot of leverage. It's the sheer size of this thing that makes everybody shake their heads. I've felt like an Iranian hostage for the past 43 days. You say, would you have done this if you had it to do over again? And my answer is yes. I can look every day into the mirror and say this was the right thing...
...Michael Milken portrayed in the press is not the man I know and live with," said his wife Lori. Milken and Lori, who was his high school sweetheart, live quietly with their three children (Greg, 15, Lance, 12, Bari, 7) in Encino. Their five-bedroom house, which might sell for $3 million, was once occupied by Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. It is a suburban idyll trimmed by red and white Impatiens, finished inside with dark oak paneling and filled with photographs of the children...
Every schoolboy knows the one about the con man trying to sell a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge. But two New Yorkers seem to have succeeded in marketing it piece by piece. Ruffino Sauco and John Baressi were arrested Nov. 19 after being spotted prying off 200-lb. sections of the bridge and flinging them down to the shoreline. Workmen had noticed that huge chunks of an aluminum grillwork under the span had been mysteriously disappearing for two days. The apparent motive: selling the metal for scrap. City officials estimate that repairing the damage will cost $37,000. That...
...invariably start off by inviting the prospective student-athlete to Harvard to stay for a day or two with a veteran member of the team. Even if no explicit instructions are given, the veteran knows that the high school junior or senior is supposed to be given the hard sell: Harvard is great, wonderful; the coach...