Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interests, it had delayed action on a federal child-care plan and failed to pass a budget -- leaving servicemen, Medicare recipients, farmers and other federal beneficiaries vulnerable to the automatic Gramm-Rudman-Hollings cutbacks. "If the issue were based on merit alone," he said, "Congress would be forced to take...
...almost flawlessly. An impressive 97% of the 701,000 voters peacefully chose a National Assembly that will write a constitution and end 74 years of South African control. By denying any single party absolute power in the 72-seat assembly, the voters boosted the chance that democratic institutions will take root after the international observers go home...
...kind of raider-dealer is exemplified by Larry ("Go-Go") Gagosian, who a few short years ago was selling posters out of a shopfront in Los Angeles but recently, with massive financing, tried (without success, according to dealing sources) to take over the estate of the senile but still living Willem de Kooning...
...high school dropout who emigrated from England as a boy, Bond had come up the hard way, fueled by an insatiable drive to acquire, combine, take over. At 49 he was one of the richest men in Australia. He controlled an empire of assets under the umbrella of his holding company, Bond Corporation Holdings Ltd.: television stations, retailing, minerals and breweries around the world. He had even figured out a way of selling nonalcoholic beer to Muslims in the Middle East. Everything about him was on a large scale -- his ambitions, his capacity for risk, his appetite for publicity. Also...
...Bond asked Chemical if he could pay up the lease early, settle the difference between the lease payments and the original $3.96 million and take ownership of the Manet. All seemed well until an American adviser in 1987 pointed out to Chemical that by law the Manet belonged to the bank and not to Bond. Its price had gone up. So why shouldn't Chemical auction the Manet on behalf of its shareholders? On learning of this suggestion, Bond reportedly flew into an epic rage. Chemical backed down and let Bond pay off the lease and keep the picture...