Word: becks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meetings with Pennzoil, DeCrane and Kinnear were huddling with their team of advisers, including Boies, Investment Banker Donald Brennan of Morgan Stanley, and Gibson Gayle, a lawyer with the Houston firm of Fulbright & Jaworski. Several members of Texaco's board of directors hastily flew to Houston, among them Robert Beck, former chairman of Prudential Insurance, and Frank Cary, former IBM chairman. Other directors, including Thomas Murphy, chairman of Capital Cities/ABC, went to Texaco's White Plains headquarters to join the talks via conference calls. All week long board members debated whether or not the company should file for Chapter...
During the Bahamas trip, the ruggers were able to salvage a split against their foreign counterparts. Beck's Buccaneers slipped past Harvard in a disputed 19-15 match...
...homes. Also 56 million cats, 45 million birds, 250 million fish and 125 million other assorted creatures. Yet despite the antiquity and ubiquity of the human-animal bond, neither Freud nor anyone else has shed much scientific light on the phenomenon. "Animals are so taken for granted," says Alan Beck, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society. "We have the gut feeling they're good for you, but how they're good and what can be done with that, we don't know." Now things are beginning to change. A variety...
...research, I began with imported beer. In an ideal world, perhaps, I would have cases of DAB or Dortmunder flown over from Germany, but assuming some financial constraints I concentrated on those brands widely available in America. The Beck's ads claim that no matter where you go in this country: "The word around town is Beck's." I was turned off, however, by the images of men in their forties trying to sport Don Johnson pajama pants and Ray-bans while hawking brew. Strike...
...Jeff Pellatier, filling in this season for Scott Beck who is on leave, suffered a pin. With the Crimson down 12-3, junior Tri-Captain Jeff Clark--whom Peckham describes as the team's most talented wrestler "When he has his mind into it"--outclassed his opponent and took a three-point decision...