Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When H. Ross Perot was forced off the board of General Motors last December, many people wondered where he would park his $700 million settlement. Some of the money showed up in Silicon Valley last week: Perot announced he was buying a stake in Next, the computer venture of Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former chairman of Apple Computer. For $20 million, Perot, 56, joins the Next board and gets 16% of a company that is at least a year away from shipping its first product. Jobs, 31, will keep 63% for himself. "We feel we can call...
...approaching footsteps on the green carpet and Chris' heartbeat on night patrol. The film does not glamourize or trivialize death with grotesque special effects. But it jolts the viewer alive to the sensuousness of danger, fear and war lust. All senses must be alert when your life is at stake, and Oliver Stone is an artist-showman who can make movies seem a matter of life and death...
...unhappy fact that the Square offers no replacement for the 'Muffin's Bottomless Mug further aggravates the reminiscent old crony budding within me. This is more than just one bank buying out one restaurant, more than the ruination of my reading period study habits; a tradition is at stake here...
...production schedule this year by more than 65%. The studio last month narrowly avoided filing for bankruptcy because of its debt load, which reached $200 million at the end of 1985. Warner Communications at least temporarily rescued the studio by investing $75 million in exchange for a 23% stake in Cannon stock and $25 million worth of company bonds...
...optical cable will be jointly owned by 29 separate North American and European communications companies, among them AT&T, RCA, MCI, ITT and Western Union. AT&T, which has a 37% stake in the venture, is in charge of building the first 3,161 nautical miles of the cable, to a point in the Atlantic Ocean near Continental Europe. There the cable will fork into two lines, one each to Britain and France, which will be built by communications firms from those countries...