Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tisch had no real master plan in building his empire, no carefully crafted long-term strategy to consult. He just looked for good deals, an elusive goal for many corporate chiefs. In the late 1960s, Tisch started playing the takeover game. His first catch was Lorillard, maker of Kent and True cigarettes. In 1968 Loews acquired the company in a friendly deal, but soon after the merger was completed, Tisch, taking an active hand, forced out the company's chief executive. No sense in sitting back and watching an acquisition turn sour, he believed. Lorillard profits subsequently showed stronger growth...
...When I saw it, I knew I just had to love it.Just take it in my arms and love it," Captain VicGatto said about his game-tying catch of a passthrown by back-up quarterback Frank Champi. Bothteams entered The Game 8-0, and left as Ivy Leagueco-champions...
Suddenly one of the Westerners mastered his fright and whispered, "Stop, let him pass." The four came to a halt in the middle of the sidewalk. The KGB man, clearly unprepared for the maneuver, walked past them. The hound had become the hare. "Now let's catch up and embarrass him," said the correspondent. The reporters began jogging toward the KGB agent, who looked around, startled, and set off at a dead run. Pedestrians turned to stare at the sight: middle-aged men dressed in suits and overcoats pounding down a snowy sidewalk like bankers after...
Honda's rivals are only beginning to catch up. Nissan began building autos last year in Smyrna, Tenn., and Toyota is constructing a plant in Georgetown, Ky., that will start assembling vehicles in 1988. But Honda is not standing still either. The automaker began building engines at a separate plant near Marysville in July 1985. It is now gearing up a second Marysville assembly line that will increase the factory's U.S. production to 360,000 cars annually...
...plane taxis to a halt, the 100 or so people on the runway start waving their American and British flags frantically. They hope to catch a first glimpse of Charles, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the throne. Dressed in their Sunday best, the crowd pushes against the ropes watching as the band, clad in Revolution-era uniforms, strikes up "God Save the Queen...