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...acquisition caps Tsai's efforts to transform Primerica into a financial powerhouse. Since he joined Primerica, the company has shed more than 25 businesses and acquired 15 others. In snaring Smith Barney (1986 revenues: about $1.1 billion), Tsai paid double the assessed value of the firm's assets, which Wall Street analysts called a bargain...
...year-end loss back to $1 billion. The company aims to return to profitability next year. And within three years, Citicorp plans to reduce its Third World debt portfolio by about one third, or $5 billion. The bank intends to sell some of the loans at a discount and transform others through so-called debt-for-equity swaps, in which the loan becomes an investment in the borrower country...
WHEN IT CAME to raping and pillaging the works of others, no 20th-century playwright could hold a candle to Bertolt Brecht. The idiosyncratic pinko playwright ranged far and wide in his search for material to transform into his own dramas. He rivaled Shakespeare, the literary grave-robber supreme, in his audacious choice of sources. Twenties cinema, 18th century musicals, Renaissance history, Jack London stories; in Brecht's hands they all became the stuff of his proletarian "epic" theater...
...grew up during the '60s and '70s, I don't recognize these as the liberal and humanistic values that were impressed upon us as the way to transform America into a more tolerant and livable society...
...election pledge not to impose new taxes." Nakasone retorts, somewhat lamely, that the long list of goods and firms exempt from the measure qualifies it as merely a "medium-sized" new tax, not the "large-scale"levy that he had promised to avoid. The opposition has vowed to transform a set of local elections, to be held in April, into an informal national referendum on the sales tax -- and Nakasone's leadership...