Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hallmark holds about 42% of the $3.2 billion-a-year greeting-card business, followed by American Greetings' 30%. The two leaders are now being challenged by Cincinnati-based Gibson Greetings, which has captured an estimated 10% share, up from 5% in 1978. Gibson scored a coup in February by striking a deal with Walt Disney Productions for the rights to use Mickey Mouse and his friends, who had previously been featured on Hallmark cards. Gibson has also signed up Garfield the Cat and the Sesame Street characters, but Hallmark's line of Peanuts cards is still one of the industry...
After falling behind 20, the Crimson (15-3 overall, 60 Ivies) roared back to trounce the Tigers, 7-2, Wednesday at Beren Courts. The victory was the coup de grace of Harvard's second straight undefeated Ivy League season and third consecutive championship...
...generals grew restless under a populist President, Joao Goulart. Neves was asked to take the newly created job of Prime Minister, thus diluting Goulart's power. By accepting, he helped preserve civilian rule a little longer. Two years after Neves stepped down in 1962, Goulart was overthrown in a coup. The military ruled until Neves won the presidency last January...
...explanations is anything like fully satisfying." Yet all but a few diehards acknowledge the brilliance of the Alvarez work. They believe the iridium layer and subsequent discoveries indicate that impacts of extraterrestrial objects may have played a significant role in certain extinctions, either directly or by delivering a final coup de grace to species already debilitated by climatic changes...
...greatest coup was in 1796, when he received 371 sheets by Durer in a transfer from the imperial court library in Vienna. Not all were genuine, and scores were lost by theft during his lifetime, thanks to a corrupt employee who sold them to dealers, but the Albertina collection today is to Durer what the royal collection at Windsor is to Leonardo...