Word: beate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pickens was content to wait for Gulfs annual shareholders' meeting in May to push the trust plan, but Lee decided to beat the Texan to the draw. The Gulf chairman devised a strategy to reincorporate the Pittsburgh-based company in Delaware, instead of Pennsylvania. Under Delaware law, Pickens would have to muster a majority of stockholder votes to gain a seat on the Gulf board or to force any structural changes in the company. Pennsylvania rules would allow the Pickens group, with its 12%-plus voting bloc, to grab a spot on the 13-member Gulf board...
...have been very sick. The cops beat me brutally at a rally called by the democratic youth which had been authorized by Pinochet. You cannot imagine how they hit me, what's more, they shot me in the back which hurt me very badly, causing a blood clot in my kidney. It is very painful on top of all the other internal complications produced by the blows, from which I have not yet recovered...
However she wrote "13 obituaries every morning and there learned the importance of being accurate for tear of enraging relatives of the corpses." A year of subbing on every beat and solid editorial criticism provided a "good apprenticeship" for Bernstein, who, unlike many of her colleagues, had no formal school training in journalism except for her work with the Crimson...
After a pair of games in Minneapolis against the University of Minnesota, the team the Crimson beat in last season's NCAA semifinals, the squad will go abroad from December 20 to December 30. Harvard will face the Czechoslovakia National Junior Team and several club teams...
...NOTEBOOK: The Crimson heads south this weekend for the Providence Tourney. It's first-round game will be a rematch with Holy Cross, which beat Harvard, 95-48 on Saturday...