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Out of 200 small public companies ranked by Forbes magazine in 1985, Rent-A-Center ranked eleventh in return on equity. In 1987, Thorn EMI acquired Rent-A-Center for $594 million. In May 1987, in the single largest gift ever made to a Kansas university to date, Mr. Barton and his wife Patsy gave $12 million to endow the College of Business ... ................
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