Word: franchisees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The company's other new ventures are already thriving. The executive relocation operation, which was acquired in 1977, has 30% of that lucrative market. An insurance franchise business, in which it owns a minority interest, hopes to sign up 2,000 independent agencies by 1983.
Until now cable companies have been barred from transmitting the programs of more than a few stations outside their franchise areas. But, in a close, 4-to-3 vote, the FCC ruled that they can carry as many channels as they choose. That decision will allow cable companies to take...
Through the 1950s and 1960s, many of the Journal's front-page stories focused on social change. But as economic and energy problems grew, and as other newspapers stepped up their coverage of business news, the Journal began concentrating more on its original franchise. "It's a much...
He bestowed little love on his children after they passed the age of cherubic portraiture. Born over a span of 28 years, they were: Paulo, his only legitimate child, by Dancer Olga Koklova (he died in 1975); Maya, by Marie-Thérèse Walter; and Claude and Paloma...
Now Rowe, McAdoo and Wicks are gone, and the winters of the Celtics' discontent have ended. The arrival of a new Bird (Larry, the No. 2 college scorer for the previous two years and the paradigm of a team player) and the revival of the old Cowens (Dave, the...