Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came at a time when many Wall Streeters had been expecting a slowdown in takeover bids because of tax reform and the insider- trading scandal (see following story). Chrysler, which began considering the AMC purchase last summer, estimates that it missed out on $100 million worth of potential tax write-offs on the deal on Jan. 1 because the advantages were eliminated by the reform legislation. Nonetheless, Iacocca was determined to buy AMC. Said he: "((The merger will)) strengthen both of us in what's already become a tough market...
...clawlike right hand to ward off aggressive handshakers who have not noticed his withered arm as they crowd around him, thrusting scraps of paper and clamoring for autographs. He responds patiently -- "I'm not a very good writer" -- and laboriously signs with his left hand, which he learned to write with after coming home to Russell, Kans., a horribly wounded veteran of the war against Nazi Germany. It took three years, seven operations and months in a plaster cast that encased him from neck to waist for him to recover. Compared with that ordeal, says Dole's younger brother Kenny...
SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, the law school made a new offer to its students. Any student who takes a public service job for less than $29,000 a year will pay a percentage of his income toward his debt for ten years, and the law schol will write off the rest...
...brain-dead know that the donations would be anonymous if this were true. These contributions are offered by a rich person in a feeble effort to combat mortality--to find security in the knowledge that for hundreds of years people will remember him, Ichabod T. Shmuck, every time they write a return address from "Ichabod T. Shmuck Hall...
...when a composer starts to write, indeed, he can use a little hustle. When Sergio Leone, in search of music for his new western, first met Morricone in 1964, the eager tyro whipped out an old photo of the two of them together as classmates at a Christian Brothers' school in Rome. Surprised and delighted, Leone remained skeptical of Morricone's abilities until the composer dusted off a piece written seven years earlier for an American baritone. That arrangement became one of the major themes in A Fistful of Dollars, and their partnership was cemented, even though Leone still likes...