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...when violent demonstrations broke out there four months ago. The regular contingent of 250 to 300 writers, photographers, television cameramen and technicians swelled to more than 1,200, all of them racing across the dusty hills of the occupied territories to record the next episode of rock throwing and tire burning...
DESCRIPTION: Growth cycles and periods of recession in months from October 1949 to the Present: artwork shows man holding flat tire; another person on motorcycle...
...Richard Walker (Harrison Ford and Betty Buckley), innocent, middle-class Americans, arrive jet-lagged and grungy in Paris early one morning, their mood unimproved when the taxi bringing them into the city from the airport develops a flat tire. All they can think about is bed and breakfast before they plunge into the medical convention that he is about to address. Oh, yes, and hot showers. Walker is taking his and trying to hear something his wife is saying over the rush of water when she disappears. Just disappears...
Buoyed by the strong yen, the Japanese last year poured nearly $6 billion into acquisitions of U.S. companies. But few of those investments were larger -- or more stunning -- than the venture announced last week by two renowned names in the world tire industry: Tokyo's Bridgestone and Chicago's Firestone. As part of a $1.25 billion deal, Bridgestone will take over Firestone's tire business, though the U.S. firm will retain a 25% interest in those operations...
...year-old Firestone will emerge from the agreement as a smaller company, operating retail tire stores and manufacturing building materials. Most of the $1.25 billion will be distributed to Firestone shareholders, who suffered during the recession of the early 1980s. Firestone Chairman John Nevin decided that the Bridgestone offer was a windfall for shareholders too good to pass...