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...Like Swanson, he owns 925,000 shares of Genentech stock. Last October, when the stock shot up to $89 a share, he was briefly worth more than $80 million. Currently, with the stock at around $43, the figure is down to a mere $40 million or so. Watching the ebb and flow of this paper fortune, Boyer admits: "It's all a little unreal...
Nonetheless, Detroit hopes that the rebate plans will kick off a spring sales surge and help soften consumer resistance to the high prices on 1981 model cars. A recent survey of car sales in southern Ohio by Chevrolet Dealer Ebb Glockner concluded that buyers were balking at paying more than...
...Great White Way many great musicals have transcended thin scripts. People don't go to a musical for the story; they want Show Tunes, and that is where Woman of the Year falls shortest of all. Fred Ebb and John Kander, who did Cabaret. Chicago and the film New York, New York (which included Frank Sinatra's new theme song), wrote the lyrics and music, creating an inoffensive score without a single memorable tune. It's standard Broadway muzak, which cries out for a powerful voice--at least--to enliven the proceedings...
...both inflation and recession. Political and economic cycles whirl too rapidly these days to give him any more time than that. Congress must be persuaded to enact some of the hotly controversial cuts in federal spending before the momentum generated by Reagan's landslide election victory begins to ebb. Financiers, businessmen, workers and consumers must be assured that a real change is coming before they harden in their belief that double-digit inflation, recurrent recessions and towering interest rates have become the new American way of life...
...moment of generosity, the Crimson let its energy level ebb just long enough for the embarrassed Wildcats to scratch out two garbage goals...