Word: conteste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take the case of the Harvard Cornell rivalry. This semi-annual clash of the ECAC titans is full of chants and chickens, slogans and shouting matches. A Harvard-Cornell hockey game is as big and as boisterous as a Michigan-Ohio State football contest, particularly when the game is played in Cornell's den in Ithaca...
...Miss Firecracker Contest...
Sidelined:The injury list at lastWednesday's game was long and painful, but atwo-week break before Harvard's next contest--Nov.19 vs. Yale--should give the Crimson a chance tomend. Freshmen Lenny Ilkhanoff and Josh Morris satout both games last week with knee injuries andare unlikely for the Yale game. Rajballie, wholeft the UMass contest with an ankle injury, wasback on the field Friday at Penn, as was seniorback Louis Lyons (leg injury...
This tendency towards hedging, according to Schlesinger, has made the 1988 contest unique. "There really were a lot of issues talked about, but superficially...it was a strange juxtaposition," he says...
...contest has already pushed the price for RJR Nabisco above $20 billion, which means that the potential buyout would dwarf the largest previous takeover, the $13.3 billion acquisition of Gulf by Chevron in 1984. The megastakes battle has taken the starch out of corporate chiefs everywhere. After all, if RJR Nabisco, the 19th largest U.S. corporation (1987 revenues: $16 billion), can be taken over by the new breed of dealmakers, is any company safe? Is Du Pont doable? Can General Electric be hot-wired? Worse, must every chief executive view a healthy balance sheet as his worst enemy, a potentially...