Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some airlines have too large a share of business at certain airports? The Justice Department showed its concern about that possibility last week, when it opposed Eastern Air Lines' proposed $75 million sale of eight gates at the Philadelphia airport to USAir. Reason: USAir would control 23 of the airport's 49 gates. Consumer activists contend that such dominance gives a carrier an unfair ability to boost fares...
...Gulf & Western just the day before. Davis had a stunning message for his fellow chief executive. Although Munro had assurances from Davis that he would not mount a takeover bid for Time, Davis was reneging: he declared that Paramount was launching an offer to acquire Time for $175 a share, or $10.7 billion. Time stock had closed at 126 that...
...long cherished the notion that Time was worth more in pieces than whole. Since the merger agreement was reached on March 3, some investors had complained that the terms provided Time shareholders with no immediate financial reward. Reason: the agreement called for a debt-free swap of 0.465 shares of Time stock for each Warner share...
...execution. The Wylie-Rushdie pairing is apt: if only one of them is an agent, both are provocateurs. At a time when many agents have turned mercenary, Wylie tops them all in aggressiveness and acerbity. Says he: "This little East Hampton approach to publishing, where publishers and agents share summer houses so that they can get together and shaft the writers, has gone by the board -- I'd like to think partially as a result of our efforts...
...elderly alumus once asked me the percentage of women students. When I told him it was less than 40 percent, he said, "That is a disproportionate share." Of course, I thought, we've grown up thinking women can achieve the same as men and it would make sense if Harvard reflected that by admitting a fair share. "It's too many women," he continued, "They just want to come to Harvard to prove they can do it, then they quit their jobs a few years later to have children." He went on to explain about "those Asian students who beat...