Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oilmen argue persuasively that they need even richer earnings to finance the heavy costs of stepping up exploration, leasing new oil fields and building refineries-a point that they are emphasizing in a quickly mounted advertising barrage. The Chase Manhattan Bank estimates that by 1985 the industry will pump an awesome $800 billion into such ventures...
...with a Calabrian-Sicilian accent calling to negotiate the ransom for her son. The gang demanded $ 17 million but finally settled for $2,890,000. To deliver the money, Billionaire Getty, who lives in England, sent to Rome a tall, craggy-faced American, identified by Italian newspapers as Fletcher Chase, 54, of San Diego. Chase packed 52,000 banknotes in lire into three sacks, but not before police had microfilmed each...
Sacks of Lire. Then, carefully following the kidnapers' instructions, Chase, in a rented car, headed south on the autostrada toward Naples. Just after passing Lagonegro, south of Naples, members of the gang pulled up alongside in a Citroën and pelted Chase's car with pebbles while the men inside rubbed their fingers together as a signal for money. Chase got the message and pulled over to the side. While he was handing over the sacks of lire, a car driven by a Rome detective with a pretty blonde policewoman at his side halted near by. Pretending...
...were the hits (Deep Throat) the bombs (Lost Horizon), the sensations (Last Tango in Paris) and the sensation-mongers (The Exorcist), the uppers (Happy New Year) and the downers (Slither), the hype-mades (The Long Goodbye), the homemades (Joyce at 34) and the readymades (Paper Moon and The Paper Chase--real paste-up jobs), the libbers (A Doll's House), the lobbers (Bang the Drum Slowly), and the cops and robbers movies playing red-light green-light with the good-guy hot seat--clearly the list eludes an all-embracing label...
...utilities, the report cited a 1971 Federal Power Commission study showing major banks to be among the largest shareholders of many electrical companies. Chase Manhattan for example was among the top ten shareholders in 42 companies; Morgan Guaranty Trust was a top ten shareholder in 41. The banks' holdings in other institutions, particularly insurance companies, are also growing...