Word: butchering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week, into every corner of the economy. Chrysler's agreement to buy AMC was only the most stunning of a series of takeover bids and pacts that swept through the boardrooms of airline companies, book publishers, casino operators, shoemakers and retailers. Says Thom Brown, chief of investment policy at Butcher & Singer, a Philadelphia-based investment-banking firm: "There are so many deals in the works that it's hard to keep a cap on them...
Sometimes Broderick is a San Francisco newspaper columnist who roams the city looking for human-interest stories. His father, whose holdings include the paper, does not approve: "The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker -- you're very tight with that whole bunch of deadbeats now, aren't you?" Sometimes Jack is a Hollywood scriptwriter, and the bunch is livelier: Producer Marty Magnin, "reeking of Pinaud Lime Sec cologne . . . his shirt open four buttons down . . . beads of sweat around the plugs of his hair transplant"; Las Vegas Club Performer Buddy Seville, formerly Buddy Singapore and before that, Sandy Cairo; a collection...
After Harvard's John Bernheimer fell to George Spahr in four games, the Crimson's James Gilfillan scored a 14-16, 15-10, 16-13, 18-17 victory over Peter Butcher...
Stanley, the top-ranked amateur player, was playing number two because he lost a challenge match to his teammate Keen Butcher...
...Darius is a great shooter," Butcher said. "He's a power-and touch player...