Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First of all, when they barrel over the Sagamore Bridge from Route 3 they'll probably head straight up they've made it to The Cape until they get to their exit...
Pickens moves with cloak-and-dagger stealth once he decides which firm to attack. Only a few Mesa insiders like Financial Vice President David Batchelder, 35, know the target. To keep its identity secret, Pickens gives it a code name (Gulf was "Barrel Cactus," for a plant in Pickens' office), which he uses while accumulating the company's stock. Money for the purchases is funneled in chunks of up to $50 million to Broker Alan Greenberg at the Wall Street firm of Bear, Stearns, and to other securities houses. Pickens transfers the huge sums from numbered bank accounts around...
...first two years, the league is pinning its latest hopes on the star power of Flutie, Boston College's miracle missile launcher and now New Jersey's , littlest General. But the U.S.F.L. started its third season last week long on pricey players, short on revenues and looking down the barrel of its own decision to take on the towering National Football League with a switch to a fall schedule in 1986. Even so, new U.S.F.L. Commissioner Harry Usher, fresh from his triumphs as second-in-command of last summer's Olympics, insists that "the state of the league has never...
...afternoon wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs for those Crimson runners who did compete. Senior MarkHenry, who has been Harvard's most dependable and succesful point scorer won the triple jump, but for the first time this season, he didn't place in the long jump...
...emerged from Elmer Steffes' white farmhouse amid the gentle bluffs of southwest Iowa. "You might as well go home--and take your dog with . you," said Steffes' 23-year-old daughter Kay, in a bitter undertone that the neighbor did not hear. Inside the house, Elmer, 47, a sturdy, barrel-chested man, explained he is losing his 460-acre farm and suspected that the neighbor might have been snooping around for the bank that will seize his property. "You can't be too sure of anybody these days," Steffes said...