Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Master of the boorish putdown, he called his famous customers "creeps" and "crumb-bums." "If he doesn't insult you, he doesn't love you," Actor Pat O'Brien once said. "And if he doesn't love you, then you have missed a chunk of life...
THIS SPECULATION leads to the prophecies of a Cassandra, but the prospect of statehood does evoke ghoulish images. The cruellest trick for exterminating coyotes on the western ranges is to freeze a compressed spring inside a chunk of horsemeat. When the greedy animal gulps it down, his body heat melts the ice and the spring expands, piercing his stomach. It may seem expedient now to offer statehood to Puerto Rico rather than be discredited internationally as colonialists; to many Puerto Ricans it seems equally comfortable to be swallowed by the wealthiest best on earth. Ford could go down in history...
...flown to Aspen to make the offer. In the face of such consideration (one gets the impression that Burden didn't even have to take off his skis) the deal went down. Murdoch had been busy; he had lined up other stockholders and with the addition of Burden's chunk had bought or had proxies for exactly 51 per cent of The New York Magazine Company's stock...
Profitable Empire. Nonetheless, the left-wing fury is understandable. The Labor government came to power pledged to extend nationalization of basic industries; now it will be surrendering a large chunk of perhaps the most profitable investment any British government has ever made. FORTUNE ranks BP fifth among the seven international oil companies?the so-called Seven Sisters ?with sales in 1975 of $17 billion. From London, Chairman David Steel, an affable Oxford-educated lawyer who is a tough negotiator, oversees a global empire. It embraces more than 650 production, refining and marketing subsidiaries in Europe, the Middle East...
...reason is that BP has huge interests in the world's two most exciting sources of new crude, Alaska and the North Sea. The BP-Sohio partnership has leased the largest chunk (its proven reserves: 5.1 billion bbl.) of Prudhoe Bay fields on Alaska's North Slope. According to an agreement between the two companies, as the flow of Alaskan oil increases so will BP's share in Sohio, rising from 26% now to 51%, probably some time next year. In the North Sea, BP's wells are expected to produce more than 650,000 bbl. a day by 1980?...