Word: barney
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...virtually certain monopoly for the service, projected profit as early as 1992 and -- most important to fretful financial analysts -- an immediate $300 million improvement in the cash flow of News Corp., which has suffered an advertising slump in all its markets. Says media analyst John Reidy of Smith Barney: "This greatly reduces the pressure on Murdoch to scrounge around and put up some properties for sale." Murdoch sounded a touch regretful: "With Sky and BSB, it was like two boxers tiring and declaring a draw. If times had been different, they might have gone another round...
...entire play takes place in Barney's Delicatessen, where Rob and Bobby, the two men behind the counter, pass limitless hours churning out sandwiches for a lunch rush that never arrives. They cower under the threatening influence of an ominously absent boss named Barney as Rob discloses piecemeal the play's central concerns. Among these are the presence of a mysterious and impenetrable room "behind the back room" of the deli, which he spends most of his time trying to infiltrate; a violent "occurrence" which resulted in the disappearance of the deli's previous employees; and the undisclosed identity...
...Barney Frank...
Harvard has been coordinating its lobbying efforts with Senator Edward M. Kennedy '52-'54 (D-Mass.), who spearheaded the proposed immigration changes along with Rep. Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass...
Worse, the chill wind of recession is in the air. Overall European growth will slow as oil prices climb. Paul Horne, the chief international economist for Smith Barney in Paris, points to recent protests in France over cheap meat imports from E.C. partners as signs of a potential "backlash against increased competition, industrial as well as agricultural, that can be expected." Nor will rising oil prices affect all E.C. countries equally. The dislocations triggered by the gulf crisis are bound to test the strength of European cohesion...