Word: terme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...proposed stock swap, which required shareholder approval, into a two-stage leveraged takeover, which needed no such vote. The change gave Time shareholders no opportunity to choose between the Warner merger and Paramount's cash. But Allen found that the board's moves were consistent with Time's long-term plan to merge with Warner. He wrote, "The corporation law does not operate on the theory that directors, in exercising their powers to manage the firm, are obligated to follow the wishes of a majority of shares. In fact, directors, not shareholders, are charged with the duty to manage...
...absence of any mercy, the absence of any humanity in his approach to the people, the masses, to anyone who did not follow him precisely. If anyone deviated the least little bit from him, like the Mensheviks, for example, he turned on them, he reviled them, he used every term of imprecation against them. He hated them. Even without using the word "evil" in a broad, metaphysical sense, you can still apply this word to Lenin in its everyday meaning...
...most realistic way, with every detail of his life, his family, his ideology and his behavior. I recognized his brother's interpretation of him as the most correct and convincing. In no way did I belittle the heroic impulse that moved him. I think that the application of the term anti-Semitic to August 1914 is an unscrupulous technique. I had earlier thought this was possible only in the Soviet Union. The book was not yet available because I had not released it, but people stated quite loudly that this was a disgusting, imperialist, revolting, loathsome book, etc. It wasn...
That would be ambitious and expensive -- up to $150 billion. But the payback would be great. Such a specific, long-term goal would invigorate NASA. It would revive public interest in science, providing new pep for a sector of the educational system that has become disturbingly weak. It would stimulate innovation in everything from materials science to computers to communications. It would create jobs. And, least tangible but perhaps most important, it would add enormously to the nation's prestige...
...have to get some kind of space station: the massive components needed for a lunar habitat are too heavy to lift from earth and will have to be assembled in space. The station will also be needed for assembling a bulky Mars vehicle and studying the effects of long-term space flight. But a single station may not be the best option. Several experts have suggested breaking it down into smaller units. One such station, the Industrial Space Facility, has already been designed by a Houston firm, Space Industries Inc. At $900 million, it could be launched...