Word: borge
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Saying "I hardly could miss the ball," Edberg for once displayed the serenity and not just the stoicism of the five-time champion Bjorn Borg. "All of us in Sweden grew up watching Borg in the finals of Wimbledon. Now I've won Wimbledon too. It's quite fun actually." Asked if it might change him, he responded, "It hasn't yet." (At least half an hour had gone by.) In other words, he would be maintaining his English residence in Chelsea? "No, Kensington." And not be moving to Monte Carlo, nearer the night life and farther from the taxmen...
Among the 29 urban areas designated as eligible to apply to the Urban Literacy Development Fund for money, 11 will receive funding and six will be granted the maximum amount of $40,000, said Margaret A. Borg, a project administrator at the fund...
Boston was the only city applying that planned to create an endowment for its literacy program. "[Boston's] was a very unique proposal," said Borg...
...best," says Austrian. "She's the greatest inspirator, she's got the best attitude, and she sets the best example for the team. The first week of the year I was asked to write down who my inspirations in sports are. I put down Bjorn Borg, Larry Bird and The Machine...
...Carter Hawley Hale Stores, which operates Neiman-Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. American Brands, a consumer-products conglomerate, made a $2.8 billion bid to take over a similar but smaller company, Chesebrough-Pond's. And Minnesota- based Corporate Raider Irwin Jacobs offered to pay about $4 billion to acquire Borg-Warner, a diversified company best known for its automotive products. The stocks of these targeted firms actually fell or remained steady just before the takeover announcements, suggesting that Wall Street's insider rumor mill may have shut down for the time being...