Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, it is the Crimson women--long the doormat of the league, having finished no better than sixth in the past four seasons--who are threatening to bring an Ivy crown home to Cambridge...
...leveraged buyout, a defensive tactic against a takeover that allows executives to use borrowed money to acquire a firm. R.H. Macy, one of the most celebrated U.S. retailers, is putting together a similar plan. In entertainment, the American Broadcasting Co., whose treasures include Dynasty, is now the crown jewel of the Capital Cities Communications empire. In transportation, Corporate Raider Carl Icahn is flying off with...
...mergers help to make businesses more efficient. The threat of a takeover can be an effective way of dislodging inept managers. To Carl Icahn, the typical chief executive is merely "a nice guy, a good drinking buddy." Sir James Goldsmith, a feared acquisitor who gained control of the Crown Zellerbach paper company last summer, told Congress that he has freed firms from "the dead hand of the bureaucrat" who produced only "complacency, ossification and decline...
...line was the 1983 NCAA Division I Championship. The Badgers took that contest, 6-2, and Harvard University was frustrated in its attempt to win its first NCAA crown since...
...lively parade of names and incidents: Muhammad using an early version of the toothbrush; Henry VIII granting a charter for dental surgery to barbers; Paul Revere providing dental fillings before proceeding to larger items of silverware; Charles Lindbergh posing with his grandfather, the inventor of the porcelain jacket crown. Seldom has dentistry been so educational. Never has it been so painless...