Word: deal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crimson Coach Dana Getchel was especially pleased with his defense. The Bruins controlled the ball in the middle of the field a good deal of the time, and put constant pressure on the Yardling backs. Brown had a "bundle of opportunities to score," Getchel said, as they received several free kicks...
...Greek shipowners, Aristotle Onassis and Panaghis Vergottis. At stake was 51% of the shares in a $3,000,000 freighter that Maria said the men had given her as a token of friendship that was to provide for her old age. Onassis never questioned his part of the deal, but Vergottis denied all, and has spent H years fighting the case through British courts. Maria's ship finally came in. Vergottis lost his last appeal, and the disputed shares are hers...
Final Decisions. Gulf & Western remained unimpressed by the merits of the Atlantic Richfield deal. Instead of giving up the fight, it called a special meeting of its directors, who decided to go ahead with the tender offer for Sinclair stock. It was only fitting, argued one Gulf & Western official, that Sinclair shareholders should make "the final decision" about their company's merger possibilities...
...Kong soft-drink market. This year an estimated 78 million bottles, second only to Coca-Cola's 100 million, will be sold from sidewalk stands, sampans and grocery stores for a total of $2,600,000. The drink's main drawback is that it tastes a good deal like liquid library paste...
Over the years, he has countered with a great deal more. At 58, 14 years and nine books out of The Tunnel of Love, De Vries has grown slightly less punnish than he used to be, more dedicated to finding a way through the punishing side of American life. Age and personal tragedy have brought him to view the world as a cruel farce, redeemable, if at all, only through men's small devices for kindliness...