Word: daring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the possible resolution of the Cities Service crisis, Wall Street is still bitter toward Gulf. Grumbles one trader: "How does a company with Gulfs standing in the corporate community dare to lock itself into a $5 billion deal and then change its mind?" Ironically, Gulf was originally cast as the hero in the Cities Service drama. In June Cities Service was trying to escape an unwanted takeover bid by Mesa Petroleum, a relatively small Amarillo, Texas, oil firm. Unwilling to be controlled by a company less than one-twentieth its size, Cities welcomed Gulfs merger bid of $5 billion...
Whether or not the Polish people dare respond to that call with widespread demonstrations, knowing that their jobs may be at stake, they have already made it clear that they are resigned neither to martial law nor to the permanent end of the democratic "renewal" that swept their nation for 16 months...
...dare not print--nay, even think--what you might exclaim when you hit your first thoroughly rotten academic streak here at Harvard and realize how much you and your loved ones paid for the two books listed above. And for your $11,000 (chuck in another grand for incidentals), you get the two volumes for only 12 months. Skip a renewal payment, and you'll be over at the Coop full time, commanding one of their space-age cash registers or arranging Kleenex sale displays...
...letter is fictitious. So is the answer, although Ann Landers is, in fact, a chocolate addict. So much so that the columnist to the lovelorn must banish her stash to the next room during working hours. ("I wouldn't dare keep a box at my elbow.") Confesses Landers abjectly: "I am hooked on chocolate. I crave it, and nothing else will...
...Wake up, fellas. The Soviets aren't exactly the good guys. Take some of your petitions to Moscow.' " Thus Reagan firmly pointed out to the disarmament conference that "in Moscow, banners are scuttled, buttons are snatched and demonstrators arrested when even a few people dare to speak about their fears...