Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glass and steel machine ascended slowly to the second level, and on its polished chrome steps, it carried the Colonel...
...contend that heavy loan demands from the merger candidates help keep the U.S. money supply tight and make it more difficult for a small business to finance new machinery or for a family to borrow money for a new house or automobile. Says W. Martin Dillon, chairman of Northwestern Steel and Wire Co: "The merger trend and the competition for capital it entails are probably helping to keep interest rates...
...firms of the 1960s, but its forays into businesses as wide-ranging as prescription drugs and sporting goods drove it to the edge of bankruptcy. The company's turn-around to financial health began after it sold off several of its acquisitions and concentrated on the manufacture of steel and a few other basic products. Recalls Paul Thayer, who is now LTV's chairman: "We had been a conglomerate mess to say the least. We had no corporate understanding of the businesses we were...
Author Fraser, 56, an excellent popular historian (The Steel Bonnets) as well as a prolific screenwriter (The Three-and Four-Musketeers), is best known for his seven Flashman novels, the saga of a Falstaffian poltroon who for sheer cad-dishness has no equal in contemporary literature. Like the Flashman mock memoirs, which skewer the Victorian scene with such wealth of detail that many American reviewers at first thought them to be authentic historical documents, Mr. American teems with minutiae ranging from the price of the London & Northwestern train trip from Liverpool to London (just under $6, first class) to details...
...present antitrust guidelines, the Government considers an industry to be exceedingly concentrated if four or fewer firms control 75% of the market. In the oil business, the top four companies account for less than 20% of sales. By contrast, four auto firms control 70% of the market, while four steel companies have 44% of that business, and four corporations have 58% of all aluminum sales...