Word: plus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nothing like teaming up with a $100 billion company to improve one's prospects. Or so Swedish automaker Saab-Scania AB hopes. Saab last week agreed to sell General Motors a 50% interest in its car-making operations, which had 1988 sales of $2.6 billion, for some $600 million, plus a promise that GM will invest another $100 million. Saab, which also makes trucks and aircraft, will spin the auto holdings into a subsidiary to carry out the deal...
...winning suitor. For Saab-Scania, which lost $123 million on its car-making operations in the first half of 1989, the advantage of the deal was access to GM's deep pockets. GM will gain badly needed production capacity at Saab's five plants in Europe, plus a stronger position in the U.S. and European luxury-car markets...
...City of Angels, which opened on Broadway last week. The show pays honest homage to the pop-culture traditions of stage, cinema, radio and recording studio (especially those of the '40s, when it is set), yet brings them together in a fashion that feels fresh and new. Nostalgia plus novelty is a notoriously volatile cocktail, but Angels has the impeccably elegant fizz of champagne...
Nevertheless, the Blue Devils were awarded two technical foul shots plus possession of the ball--enough to clinch the six-point...
...erosion in the quality of life for many lawyers. Law firms often require that each year attorneys do 2,000 to 2,500 hours of work that can be billed to clients, almost a third more than a decade ago. That frequently translates into twelve-hour-plus workdays and busy weekends as well...