Word: tags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...payroll by more than 80%. As Jones works to save a few of the firm's 47 remaining properties, he still occupies a handsome suite of offices in Kroh's five-story headquarters building on Ward Parkway. But on the chair in which he sits is a little white tag that reads PROPERTY TEXTRON FINANCIAL CORPORATION, IRVINE, CALIFORNIA. That chair, along with nearly every other piece of furniture in Kroh headquarters, is leased, and must be returned to Textron unless the Kansas City company can pay up its outstanding balance soon...
...incredible 35-2-1 national championship season of 1984-'85, the professional hockey teams have grabbed 11 players, mostly underclassmen, from that Engineer squad. According to Addesa, it was his four remaining seniors, the "ones who were left behind" by the "play-for-pay" crowd, which enabled this rag-tag collection of freshmen to advance to the semis...
When Congress appeared ready to resume military funding in October 1986, North proposed that the CIA purchase the Project Democracy assets, which he listed as including six aircraft, warehouses, ships, boats, houses and a 6,520-ft. airstrip in northern Costa Rica. The price tag: $4.5 million. North even seems to have engaged in near blackmail when officials in Costa Rica threatened to close this airstrip. After consulting with Elliott Abrams, the top State Department official on contra policy, and Lewis Tambs, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, North reported that he called Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez to threaten...
...astonishing price tag drove home just how superheated London's upscale residential-property market has become. The reason: a recent influx of cash- rich foreigners, most notably Arabs and Americans, and well-paid fugitives from the so-called "stockbroker belt" south of London who want to reduce the time they spend commuting to and from their offices in the city's revitalized financial district. An offer to buy the $60,000 closet was made by a woman who was weary of commuting to the capital from a bedroom exurb, but the wave of publicity caused her to withdraw...
WHEN I FIRST heard Harvard people bragging about their great diversity, I thought they were talking about some kind of graduate school for scuba divers. I soon discovered that what they were referring to was the rag-tag, motley, kaleidoscopic, crazy-quilt, incongruous mixture of humanity that gathers each year in Cambridge to pursue its lofty goals...