By the 1960's, however, the car dealerships and other higher-end businesses started fleeing, and liquor stores, service stations and go-go joints took over.
As soon as there is weakness, some other muscle or joint must take over, and that's when injuries happen".
Yet James and Ian buzz cheerfully between workbenches, supervising every cut, triple-checking every joint, and will take over if a task seems insurmountable.
THE saga of sought-after Alstom, the French turbines-to-transport group, took a dramatic turn today when Siemens, a German engineering group, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MHII) of Japan lodged a joint proposal to take over chunks of the business.
The Charles Schwab Corporation and TD Waterhouse, two of Wall Street's leading brokerage companies, said yesterday that they had set up a joint venture to take over British stocks market-maker Aitken Campbell.
The company had announced earlier that it would be part of joint venture to take over the Paramount Hotel, on 46th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, creating a new Hard Rock Hotel by the end of next year.
Japanese broadcaster NHK reported on Saturday that Chinese technology company Lenovo Group was in talks about a possible joint venture to take over Sony's loss-making Vaio PC business overseas.
They also proposed a joint committee to take over the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City - the issue that helped sink the Camp David talks in 2000 after Yasser Arafat refused to concede sovereignty around the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosques.
Avtovaz is close to making a decision on selling a minority stake in its business; bids have also been tabled by Fiat and Renault.Borse Dubai and NASDAQ seemed to have secured their joint effort to take over OMX, which operates stock exchanges in the Nordic region, after Qatar's state-backed investment authority withdrew its request for regulators to approve its rival bid.
It had been understood that members of the Sport Capital consortium and those involved in the Together Leeds consortium were planning to launch a joint bid to take over at Elland Road.
