Word: prospectus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard hockey preseason prospectus, he is listed under the catgeory "Defensemen Lost...
...start in 1922. That year, in a small office on 17th Street in Manhattan, two young men, Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, wrote a prospectus for a radically new magazine that became TIME. Hadden lived only long enough to see TIME become a success; under Luce, Time Inc. grew into the largest magazine publisher in the U.S. When Luce died in 1967, Time Inc. had four magazines. Today it publishes 13 and is part owner of another eleven. Along the way it also became one of America's most significant book, video and cable-TV companies...
...Prospectus for TIME...
...prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission notes that at the 27-year-old bordello, situated on two adjacent sites near Reno, more than 100 "independent contractors" generated $917,000 in profits last year on ^ $5.4 million in revenues. By selling shares for $20 apiece, the group plans to raise $23.3 million, $18 million of which would go to buying the ranch from its current owners, Joseph and Sally Conforte. Under its new ownership, the firm could function much like any other publicly held company. Except that its method of making money is not legal in any state besides...
...have radically different means or ends. Both occupy about 9,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space. Both display a Nam June Paik piece, clips from the compilation film Precious Images, and a model of a drive-in theater. Both have been ages in the planning, though MOMI's 1978 prospectus preceded AMMI's by three years, and a trace of bantering rancor shows through the Brits' geniality toward their upstart colonial rival. Perhaps because MOMI was spawned by the venerable British Film Institute, it seems a more comprehensive and congenial trip down the Yellow Brick Road of movie...