extemporaneous, impromptu-Extemporaneous means prepared in advance and carried out with few or no notes, while impromptu means totally unprepared, performed on the spur of the momentâbut this distinction has been all but lost.mÂ·prompÂ·tu. adj. 1. Prompted by the occasion rather than being planned in advance: an impromptu party.
Carrier Corporation was acquired by United Technologies Corporation (UTC) in July 1979. Prior to the acquisition by UTC, Carrier Corporation was known as the Carrier Air Conditioning Company.International Comfort Products (ICP), headquartered in Lewisburg, Tennessee, was acquired by Carrier in 1999.he corporation bearing his name succeeded in marketing its air conditioner to the residential market in the 1950s, which led to formerly sparsely populated areas such as the American Southwest becoming home to sprawling suburbs. Carrier is the largest air conditioning producer in the world.
âThere will not be African-American ownership at the very top, and I think that makes a difference,â said James Winston, executive director of Washington-based National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters. Viacom Inc., the media powerhouse that owns CBS and the MTV and Nickelodeon cable TV channels, is paying about $2.3 billion in stock for BET Holdings and will assume $570 million in debt. It was believed to be one of the biggest buyouts ever of a black-owned business, although the prices for some sales have never been disclosed.