Word: vail
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Many corporations have dreamed up creative means to pare down their debt. Vail Associates, the Colorado ski-resort operators, paid down part of its interest expenses in free ski passes rather than cash. And FPA, a Pennsylvania real estate developer, retired $19 million in junk-bond debt by giving its creditors raw land that it owned...
...situation may be changing in History: Two junior professors, Hue-Tam Ho Tai and H. Leroy Vail, have been promoted to tenure in the last year. But the English Department hasn't seen the writing on the wall...
...Associate Professor of History H. Leroy Vail, on becoming the second junior history professor to be offered tenure in 20 years...
...There will be real politics in the Black community that there has not been before--not the facade of unity the people think of when they think of the ANC," Vail says...
...which might make most scholars skeptical about the prospects for real reform in South Africa. But "as we have learned from went on in Eastern Europe," Vail says, "you can never tell what is going to happen tomorrow...