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Alternatively, Kennecott can declare a stock dividend of its Peabody holdings and so set up the coal company as an independent entity once again. Kennecott shareholders seem to favor such a spin-off scheme and may sue if it does not come about; their expectation is that the Kennecott and Peabody shares they would have as a result of a spin-off might fare better in the stock market than Kennecott alone. Trouble is, Kennecott has acted as if the divestiture order did not exist. The company lavished management time on running Peabody and spent $532 million to buy equipment...
...part of the Ling empire, the company was known as LTV Electrosystems Inc. After its spin-off four years ago, it needed a new name, but a San Francisco company hired for the purpose could not invent one that pleased Chairman and President John W. Dixon, so Dixon in frustration decided on E-Systems. What does the letter stand for? Says Dixon: "Any word that starts with E and is good...
...before his last hit has settled into acceptance. In January 1972, just a year after All in the Family made its debut, Lear produced Sanford and Son, his first black sitcom, and watched it soar into the top ten rated shows. It was followed that September by Maude, a spin-off from Family, whose mercurial, politically liberal protagonist taught a nation's housewives the imprecation: "God'll getcha for this." Then came two more socially stratified black sitcoms: Good Times, wherein J.J. and his ghetto clan give a new meaning-and pronunciation-to dynamite, and the middle-class...
...contention. The difference in price between an advertising minute on a top-rated show and its rivals is up to $100,000, and the other shows simply cannot attract big enough audiences. With the networks fighting over every hour, the instinct is to play safe. Programming has become one spin-off after another, either from a previous success or formats copied from British...
...show, produced by Film Maker Jesus Salvadore Treviño, tears along at a breakneck pace to the beat of finger-snapping rock music. Regular features include a spin-off of the Laugh-In cocktail party. Kids dance frantically to music; when it stops, everybody freezes while the camera zooms in on one child, who asks: "What's eight times seven?" The music resumes, then stops, and another child shouts "Fifty-six." In "The Brownstones," another Laugh-In-like skit, children lean out of apartment-house windows singing and joking...