Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team stepped up in subsequent doubleheaders against St. Mary's--a Harvard sweep--and Wisconsin--a split...
...five-member search committee--composed of Faculty members from the history, government and Near Eastern languages and civilizations departments--is said to be split over both who to appoint as well as the academic validity of a so-called Holocaust chair itself...
...proxy fight in 1995-96--in which LeBow proposed to split the company into two pieces, the Nabisco Brands food group and the R.J. Reynolds tobacco firm--was ultimately rejected by skeptical stockholders. "I think it was...an issue of character," said tobacco-industry analyst Ellen Baras at the time. "I think there are people who would support a spin-off of Nabisco, but not by LeBow." One of the prime factors was LeBow's dubious reputation as a manager. In 1994 his own shareholders had sued him, claiming he had taken millions of dollars in improper loans; LeBow settled...
...price tag. Various estimates put the total cost of bringing three new members into the fold at anywhere from $35 billion over 13 years (the Clinton Administration estimate) up to a high of $125 billion (the Congressional Budget Office's). Expect a fight when the time comes to split up this burden among the present and future members of NATO...
What has shaken Flatley, however, is the acrimonious nature of his split from Riverdance. Flatley was dismissed from the company following stymied contract negotiations during which producers refused to accede to his demands for full artistic control of the show. "I walked out on $75,000 a week because I wanted to dance free," says Flatley. At the time of the negotiations, the British press painted a somewhat less romanticized picture of Flatley's aspirations. It was widely reported that he demanded, for example, expanded homage in the program notes. Such reports, Flatley insists, "are lies, out-and-out lies...