Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mobil's $1.86 billion purchase of Marcor, the owner of Montgomery Ward; Standard Oil of Ohio's $1.77 billion acquisition of Kennecott). Many firms are now unloading some of their unattractive operations. Exxon is trying to sell its office-products business, and Atlantic Richfield recently took a $785 million write-off on its stake in Anaconda...
Your article, "Excessive Walkouts Plague A.R.T. Show" finds us two very disturbed. You write to us that this play of the A.R.I., "CIVIL warS," is not accessible to American audiences because of its European flavour. Reading this, we became very excited. Having attended the finest universities on the Continent, we hurried to see "CIVIL warS...
...going to write a latter of apology and invite them to come next year," Crooks-said...
Meanwhile, Bank of America was trying to clean up its scandal. The banking corporation, the nation's second-largest (assets: $121 billion), has announced that it would have to make a $95 million fourth-quarter write-off to cover the cost of buying back failed securities that the bank had a role in delivering to investors...
When PBS adapted three John Cheever stories for TV in 1979, Playwright A.R. Gurney Jr. (The Dining Room, Scenes from American Life) seemed ideally suited to write one of the scripts. Gurney has been for the stage what Cheever was for fiction: the foremost chronicler of the foibles and angst of the Wasp upper middle class. The adaptation succeeded. But it also pointed up a significant difference between Cheever's striving suburbia and Gurney's blue- blood Buffa- lo: while many of Cheever's bedeviled characters are avidly accumulating, almost all of Gurney's etiolated aristocrats are watching the family...