Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first thing we notice when we see his play today is how little love has changed, with all its harsh geometry of triangles and unrequited passions; nor do we have any difficulty recognizing its evergreen cast of characters: the impatient suitor trying to persuade his girl to let him share her bed, the fair-weather swain shifting in an instant from rhapsody to rancor, the lovers plotting to escape a tyrannical father (only to find that they cannot so easily escape themselves). Puck, we realize, would make a dream host on The Love Connection, and the rude mechanicals, rehearsing "most...
...terse statement allowed Time to proceed with its friendly acquisition of Warner. Within three hours of the decision, Time carried out its tender offer to pay $70 a share for 100 million of the more than 180 million Warner shares outstanding. Along with 17 million Warner shares that Time acquired in a stock swap in June, the tender gave Time a 58% controlling interest in its merger partner. As a result of the deal, Time changed its name to Time Warner; the company will buy the remaining Warner shares for a combination of cash and securities under terms that...
...part, Paramount dropped its $200-a-share hostile bid for Time after the supreme court ruling. The decision upheld Allen's finding that Time's management acted properly when it responded to 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...
...share power? Solidarity leader Lech Walesa could see no good reason last week as he turned down an invitation from President Wojciech Jaruzelski to join a grand coalition government with the Communist Party. After a two-hour closed meeting with Jaruzelski at the President's residence in Warsaw's Belvedere Palace, Walesa declared, "I must say I don't envy the President. He has an awful lot of problems...
CERTAINLY, some of the criticism is justified. The Duke was very eager to take credit for the state's economic success during good times, and now that times are tough, he obviously must share in the blame...