Word: borge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...customers include the likes of A T & T, IBM, GE, INA, Alcoa, Mead, Singer, Monsanto, Borg-Warner. Eight times a year their top powers-chairmen, presidents or vice presidents -get together for a day in Diebold's offices. In these meetings they exchange information on how their own companies are trying to anticipate and respond to the many minirevolutions in the country. Diebold preaches a message: "Don't wait for the activists to come forward. Go out and meet them at least halfway, and maybe more than that...
There sure isn't. The game is dominated by strong-willed individualists, led by the fiery Connors, 26, and the icy Bjorn Borg, 22, his great Swedish rival, who compete in a series of tournaments round the world for big money that is getting bigger all the time. Borg has earned $661,000, Connors $519,000 and Vitas Gerulaitis $425,000 to date this year...
What is surprising is that McEnroe has come so far so fast matched against such opposition. He has beaten the likes of Roscoe Tanner, Adriano Panatta, Eddie Dibbs and Corrado Barazzutti and on one glorious occasion even managed to knock off Borg, 6-3, 6-4, in Stockholm, of all places. Still, quite understandably, McEnroe has a long way to go before he can be ranked with Borg. Or Connors, whom he has never beaten and who destroyed him in the semifinals of last September's U.S. Open. McEnroe likes to have some fun paraphrasing what Connors used to intone...
...pros laud McEnroe's ability to disguise his shots and alter his style. Predicts Borg...
Firestone still, faces a Government fine, countless lawsuits over the 500-series tires, and the possibility that the bad publicity may deflate sales of its new, different 721-series tires. Borg-Warner seems prepared to accept these risks, but the deal may still not go through. Washington trustbusters could easily challenge a marriage that would be one of the largest in U.S. business history...