Word: staking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sales have boomed in Warnaco's brands, which include Warner's and Olga lingerie and Calvin Klein underwear. The stock has soared nearly 200% in the past five years, increasing the value of Wachner's stake to roughly $205 million...
Wachner's mission to Maine last week struck a more compassionate note. She even pledged that Warnaco would retain an equity stake in Hathaway if necessary to help the local investors swing a deal. Workers applauded the news as their last, best hope. But former Governor McKernan has no experience in apparel and rates his chances of keeping the plant going no better than fifty-fifty. Wachner does have experience. That's why she's getting...
...most important election in decades, local exit polls showed Prime Minister Shimon Peres with the narrowest of leads over Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu. The polls, conducted by Israeli television stations, showed Peres leading by just one-to-four percent, which means the outcome cannot yet be predicted. At stake is Israel's course toward peace, pursued aggressively by both Peres and his Labor Party predecessor, Yitzak Rabin, who was assassinated last November by right-wing rabbinical student Yigal Amir. Netanyahu has come grudgingly to accept the accords granting the Palestinian Authority limited self-rule in Gaza and the West...
...digital board, has jumped 10 points, to around 28.50--about equal to the quote for the Communist candidate, Gennadi Zyuganov. These speculators may care more about making a profit than about who wins and what it would mean for Russian democracy, but they at least have some stake in the outcome. Not all their countrymen feel that...
...thing that would stop me...is being burned at the stake. I don't like burning to death." --Dr. Jack Kevorkian...