Word: trades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Part of the reason was the illness of junior Mike Scott. The two-guard started the game but only played for eight minutes, still hampered by the flu. Last season, he and then-junior Dave Demian would trade off guarding the opposing team's best guard, which on Saturday was unquestionably Hightower...
...Super Channel, an English-language cable channel in Europe. An Asian marketing group runs ads in Japanese, Chinese and Korean newspapers in California, and there are plans to open offices in Hong Kong and Taipei. Oxford has also plunged into cyberspace with its own Internet site, enabling investors to trade online...
...least of those is MoneyGram's parent, First Data Corp., a big credit card-processing outfit that is the selling shareholder in the IPO. Last year First Data bought another data grinder, First Financial Management Corp., which just happened to own Western Union. The Federal Trade Commission took one look at the MoneyGram-Western Union union and said, Uh-uh. First Data would have to choose one and sell the other...
...patient and all the money away," complains Skip Kulikoff, fire-fighters-union president in San Bernardino, California. "It's full-scale war," agrees James Page, publisher of the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. "Fire fighters see their careers in the balance." They have won control of the ambulance trade in part of Orlando, Florida; Troy, New York; and Sacramento, Newport Beach and Ventura, California...
...Loewen, SCI and Louisiana-based Stewart Enterprises (the third largest funeral company) were consistently more expensive than their independent competitors. In Amarillo, Texas, for example, a Loewen home charged $1,638 for the basic services of its funeral director and staff--the "nondeclinable" fee allowed by the Federal Trade Commission, known more casually in the industry as the "cover charge." The other three Amarillo funeral homes in the survey charged an average of $863. A TIME price survey found Amarillo's Boxwell Brothers funeral home, an independent, charged $185 for embalming, but Loewen's N.S. Griggs charged $425. "When...