Word: unloads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Penn should consider itself lucky to unload Hackney, and his spinelessness and reverence for a illogical bureaucracy will ensure a long tenure at his new post. The arts in America, instead of life at Penn, will suffer if he is confirmed...
...HEARD THE NUMBERS -- 10% OF AMERICAN MEN ARE GAY, 2.7 million children are abused, one in eight women develop breast cancer. Politicians, activists, fund raisers, scientists and, yes, magazine journalists routinely unload such staggering statistics on a trusting public. The numbers are presented as though they carry all the weight of scientific truth. Don't believe...
...simplest reason for all the extracurricular work may be the strongest: Hollywood remains in a deep recession, and the agency will earn more from one Matsushita-MCA deal than a whole lifetime of 10% fees from Kevin Costner. If Ovitz is able to unload MGM at a decent price, according to a knowledgeable source, Credit Lyonnais will probably pay him north of $30 million. Plus, as long as he has his main talent-peddling business going strong, Ovitz can very profitably cherry-pick in the secondary realms. He can create an ad campaign here and arrange a corporate acquisition there...
...Barney, the acquisition will create a Wall Street powerhouse that poses a serious threat to industry leader Merrill Lynch. The deal will also reunite Weill with a company he patched together out of a string of troubled brokerages during the 1960s and '70s. American Express had been seeking to unload the money-losing brokerage. Wall Street hailed the merger as good for all three firms...
Unfortunately, however, this story does not have a happy ending. The Johnsons are trying to unload their books at a 25 percent discount as they prepare to close up shop and move back to Vermont in the next few weeks or months. The Johnson family can no longer afford to stay in business...