Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's season ended when the squad fell to Navy, 10-9, in a first-round game of the NCAA Tournament at Ohiri Field. The Crimson earned its only other bid to the tourney in 1980, when it fell in a quarterfinal game to John Hopkins...
Morton Thiokol, the company that built the booster rockets for the space shuttle Challenger, has decided to retreat from its long and painful association with the shuttle program. Last week the Chicago-based aerospace and chemical firm said it would decline to bid for the $1.5 billion NASA contract to build motors for the shuttle's next generation of solid-fuel boosters...
...more than 5,000 signatures, erected GO MURRAY billboards and even staged a pep rally starring Country Singer Larry Gatlin. The firm's board has rejected Electrolux's offers of $48 and $52 a share, but Wall Street investors think Electrolux is prepared to offer even more. Anticipating another bid, they sent Murray's stock to a high of $64 last week...
Atlantic is making a strong bid with Debbie Gibson, 17. She may sing like a Muppet baby, but her first album has already fostered four Top Five singles. Capitol counters with Tracie Spencer, 12, whose first album came out last month, while A&M has Shanice Wilson, 15, who landed her record contract by winning a talent contest. Even Tracy Chapman, 24, a singer-songwriter out of Boston, sounds like a flashback. Her warmly praised debut album resounds with high purpose, in marked contrast to the growing legions of pube rockers, but to anyone who actually made it through...
Brown eventually did, but not until he had shifted from radical to liberal to careerist. A failed bid for speaker in 1974 badly disillusioned him. "He became quite cynical after that," recalls Morris Bernstein, a San Francisco businessman and longtime Brown supporter. "He began to think that to gain power he would have to give up many of his social concerns...