Word: chases
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lewis was fast and Sam Graddy only quick. The time was 9.99, the margin comfortable. Then the long jump, and it could have been mailed in. "My strategy will be the same as always," he announced beforehand, "to pop a very big jump early and make everyone chase after me. If I feel 'on' after my first jump, I might take a second." For a personal Olympic motto he chose: "A gold medal is first. The world record is last." If his priorities did not earn admiration, there was at least irony in the boos. Criticized by some...
...Bostonians may or may not be destined for Freshman Week glory aside Paper Chase, Love Story, and other on-location classics. But it is worth seeing, and Yard cognoscenti will get a knowing chuckle from seeing Johnston Gate's ever-obnoxious gingerbread guard-booth look out of place in yet another century...
Many Americans also take a jaundiced view of what the U.S. Treasury is doing. Says Richard Banz, a bond specialist with the London subsidiary of Chase Manhattan Bank: "Never underestimate the ingenuity of a government when it needs money." Critics point out that the new legislation will create an unusual two-tier system in which American investors will continue to pay taxes on bond earnings while foreigners will not. For this reason, John Heimann, former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, calls the tax repeal a "cynical decision" that invites abuses. American drug dealers and other tax dodgers could use foreign...
Swearingen, 66, who retired last September as chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana. His partner in running Continental will be William S. Ogden, 56, a former vice chairman of Chase Manhattan...
Says Chairman Barry Sullivan, who worked with Ogden at Chase: "Before long I'm going to have to ask to meet him on a football field and beat his brains...