Word: streets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...live alone on Brattle Street. Brattle Street in Harvard Square is not exactly the Combat Zone, but, when you live alone in a three-story house, it's not exactly Disneyland either...
...lobbyists emerged to tout the Time-Warner combination. Director-producer Steven Spielberg, a close friend of Ross's, expressed his support in a telephone talk with the Warner chairman and Nicholas. Spielberg collaborator George Lucas, who distributes their Indiana Jones films through Paramount, wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal last week that praised the Time-Warner deal for promising "steadily increasing values" and attacked Paramount for "contributing to the further destabilization of the entertainment industry and the U.S. economy...
...announced. They suspected the Delaware court of siding with corporate management to preserve the state's lucrative role as a corporate haven. Most major U.S. companies, including more than half of the 1,671 firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange, are incorporated in Delaware. Said a Wall Street analyst: "What was really at stake was the kingdom of Delaware as the guardian for directors against shareholder rights...
...B.A.T shareholders would be better off if the company were to refocus on the high-profit tobacco business, which is experiencing new growth in Asia and other overseas markets. A veteran conglomerate-buster who served as the model for the swashbuckling Sir Larry Wildman in the 1987 film Wall Street, the 6-ft. 4-in. Goldsmith may have made his point all too well. Now that he has put B.A.T on the block, other raiders may try to top his offer. Or B.A.T may attempt to boost its stock price beyond his reach by launching a restructuring in which some...
...opening time Tuesday, an estimated 10,000 people snaked twice around the block. Some 10,000 applications were handed out in just 90 minutes, and 6,000 more were mailed the next day; several recipients then tried to sell the forms on the street. Singapore is hardly a stranger to the presence of authoritarian government. Even so, Gordon Seow, Singapore's commissioner in Hong Kong, said, "Maybe now Beijing will really see how much it has scared people here...