Word: ltd
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...from England as a boy, Bond had come up the hard way, fueled by an insatiable drive to acquire, combine, take over. At 49 he was one of the richest men in Australia. He controlled an empire of assets under the umbrella of his holding company, Bond Corporation Holdings Ltd.: television stations, retailing, minerals and breweries around the world. He had even figured out a way of selling nonalcoholic beer to Muslims in the Middle East. Everything about him was on a large scale -- his ambitions, his capacity for risk, his appetite for publicity. Also, he had some Australian paintings...
Bond's Bond Corporation Holdings Ltd. is on the verge of bankruptcy; in the measured language of its auditors, Arthur Andersen & Co., there is "some doubt that ((it)) will be able to continue as a going concern." The painting is reportedly back on the market at $65 million, but there have been no takers so far -- though Bond's spokesmen imply that they have almost had to beat would-be buyers off with a stick. Leading dealers, asked this month what a feasible price for Irises might be, concurred that it might lie in the $35 million to $40 million...
...concept moved on to Europe in 1973 and Asia in 1976. In Australia we offer additional local coverage through a joint venture with John Fairfax & Sons Ltd. Last year the various international editions of TIME carried a total of 53 cover stories that did not appear...
...shortages of the 1970s hurt all roadside businesses considerably. There were also some who claimed that baby-boom customers preferred zippy novelties like, say, tacoburgers. So when Howard B. Johnson, son of the founder, got an offer in 1979 from a British conglomerate named Imperial Group Ltd., he was happy to sell an empire that included 1,040 restaurants (about a quarter of them , locally franchised,) plus 520 motor lodges for a tidy $630 million. But the deal did not bring lasting happiness to the Britons, and in 1985 they sold Howard Johnson's to the Marriott Corp. Marriott, which...
When no Hollywood studio came through, Feldman and Meeker got backing from a New Zealand company, Lion Screen Entertainment Ltd. The producers put up $1 million of the film's $13 million budget themselves. They hired Larry Peerce (Goodbye Columbus) to direct and chose Chiklis, a little-known New York actor, for the lead role after auditioning more than 200 aspirants. Following several delays, shooting began last...