sell-out cabaret, buyout, hard sell, retiree, lump-sum

GM to cut pension burden by $26bn

US car giant General Motors announces plans to reduce its pension obligations by $26bn by offering thousands of retiring workers lump-sum payments.

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lump-sum tax
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G.M. Plans Big Buyouts For Retirees In Pension
By BILL VLASIC and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH

General Motors will seek to cut $26 billion in pension obligations through changes in payments to retired white-collar workers.



Good news from Rome: serious people are running Italy. After a decade of government-as-cabaret-act under Silvio Berlusconi, the era of Mario Monti should be more like one of those classic 1970s Italian movies that had subtitles and dealt with matters of life and death. He has made a good start; pension reform is in place and he is starting to tackle entrenched rigidities in the economy. Mr Monti’s efforts are not reflected in bond markets, though. Italy’s 10-year bond yield, at 6.4 per cent, remains higher than Spain’s.

Boeing, Airbus Give AMR Hard Sell

Airbus and Boeing are vying for an American Airlines order of more than 250 jetliners that holds even higher stakes for the carrier and the aerospace companies than the deal's size suggests.

hard sell

n. Informal

1. Aggressive, high-pressure selling or promotion.
2. A person or organization that resists pressure from salespeople; a difficult sales prospect.

Toyota Takes Knife to U.S. Labor Costs

With sales in the doldrums, Toyota is offering buyouts to 18,000 U.S. workers, reducing wages, and axing bonuses. But no layoffs yet

One to One with Performance Artist Meow Meow

Meow Meow has wowed audiences with her own special brand of cabaret performance art around the globe. She has just appeared at David Bowie's High Line Festival in New York, and is currently appearing to sold-out houses in Berlin.

Few musicals can claim to capture the mood of a historical period as well as the 1972 classic Cabaret.
Liza Minnelli's unforgettable portrayal of singer Sally Bowles and the film's stylish recreation of the era have become defining images of Weimar Berlin.
In this documentary, actor Alan Cumming explores the truths behind the fiction. He meets many of those closely involved with the original film, including Liza Minnelli, and talks to cabaret artists, among them acclaimed performer Ute Lemper.
Alan explores the origins of the Cabaret story in the writings of Christopher Isherwood and uncovers the story of the real life Sally Bowles, a woman very different from her fictional counterpart.
He talks to the composer of Cabaret about the inspiration for the film's most famous songs and discovers the stories of the original composers and performers, among them Marlene Dietrich. Finally, Alan reveals the tragic fate of many of the cabaret artists at the hands of the Nazis.
The documentary pays tribute to the magic of the original film and explores the fascinating and often shocking reality of the people and stories that inspired it.


sell out (SELL ALL) phrasal verb
1 to sell all of the supply that you have of something:
We sold out of the T-shirts in the first couple of hours.

2 If a supply of something sells out, there is no more of that thing to buy:
The first issue of the magazine sold out within two days.

3 [often passive] When a show or film sells out, all of the tickets for it are sold:
We couldn't get seats - the concert was sold out.

sell-out
noun [C usually singular]
a performance or sports event for which no more tickets are available, because it is so popular:
The concert was a sell-out.cabaret
a performance of popular music, singing or dancing, especially in a restaurant or bar:
a cabaret act.

cabaret

[名]キャバレー, ナイトクラブ；[U][C]((英))（キャバレーなどでの）演奏, ショー.［フランス語. 原義は「酒場」←ラテン語camera（部屋）］

cabaret show

((英))（ナイトクラブ・レストランの）ショー（((米))floor show）.

A buyout is an investment transaction by which an entire company or a controlling part of the stock of a company is sold. A firm "buys out" a company to take control of it. A buyout can take the form of a leveraged buyout, a venture capital buyout or a management buyout. Where the company being bought out is a public company, a buyout is often called a "going private" transaction.
The term may apply more generally to the purchase by one party of all of the rights of another party with respect to an ongoing transaction between the two. For example:

• an employer may "buy out" an employee's contract by making a single prepayment, so as to have no ongoing obligation to employ the person;

• a landlord may buy out the remainder of a tenant's lease, effectively paying them to vacate.

Contracts may have an explicit buyout provision setting forth the terms or price. In the alternative the matter may be negotiated by the parties. If the entire operation is not purchase, the remainder is referred to as a stub.



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In finance, a buyout is an investment transaction by which the ownership equity of a company, or a majority share of the stock of the company is acquired. The acquiror thereby "buys out" control of the target company.
A buyout can take the form of a leveraged buyout, a venture capital buyout, or a management buyout. Where the company being bought out is a public company, a buyout is often called a "going private" transaction.

Non-corporate usage

The term may apply more generally to the purchase by one party of all of the rights of another party with respect to an ongoing transaction between the two. For example:

• An employer may "buy out" an employee's contract by making a single prepayment, so as to have no ongoing obligation to employ the person;
• A landlord may buy out the remainder of a tenant's lease, effectively paying them to vacate.

Contracts may have an explicit buyout provision setting forth the terms or price. In the alternative the matter may be negotiated by the parties. If the entire operation is not purchased, the remainder is referred to as a stub.

buy・out, buy-out

（在庫全製品・会社の株などの）買い占め (management ～ 経営者による自社株の買い占め）; 買収.
⇒buy