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Coupled with Thursday's one-meter competition, in which Greene placed fourth and Byrd sixth, diving helped the aquawomen catapult into the third spot early and remain there down the stretch...
Pennzoil naturally was elated. The award could catapult the 36th-largest U.S. oil company into the ranks of the oil giants. Pennzoil's stock, which stood at $49.875 a month ago, closed at $66.125 last week. Upon hearing Casseb's ruling, Pennzoil Attorney Joseph Jamail and Chairman J. Hugh Liedtke exchanged bear hugs and laughed aloud. When a reporter asked a jubilant Liedtke whether he still might settle with Texaco, he replied, "We're always willing to discuss matters. The problem is that dealing with Texaco is like trying to frisk a wet seal...
...Harvard heavyweight varsity, ranked fourth in the East last week, came from behind to upset third-ranked Princeton and catapult into this week's second-place slot--behind Navy...
...lost, as the bike is merely floating, not moving ahead. So drivers try to stay on the ground as much as possible. Promoters, though, try to play up the sport's dangerous in-the-air element. The most exciting part of this course was a large jump called the catapult; Diet Coke gives the driver who jumps the farthest a $1000 bonus. The fans love it, but it reinforces the idea that motocross is a show and not a sport...
Gates, 28, has helped catapult Microsoft to the forefront of the software industry, and his list of customers includes every major manufacturer of personal computers. When IBM wanted an operating system for its Personal Computer, it turned to Gates. When Apple needed software for its Macintosh, it gave Microsoft a test model to use in writing the programs. Gates helped with the design of Radio Shack's Model 100, the first truly portable computer. Microsoft produced the MSX systems software that will be used for a new series of Japanese computers. Thanks to that business (and more), Gates...