Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that we in NATO will use only conventional forces in the face of a military threat is to condemn ourselves to defeat in advance. We are currently outmanned compared with the Warsaw Pact countries. Without nuclear arms we would be very seriously outgunned as well. Under these circumstances, no one can risk not resisting the Soviets...
...days it seemed certain that Andrei Sakharov's war of wills with the Kremlin could end only one way: in defeat and, possibly, death by starvation. Then, four days after the dissident leader's hunger strike led to his being hospitalized, the Kremlin backed down. In a rare concession, the Soviet leadership surrendered to Sakharov's demand that his daughter-in-law Liza Alexeyeva, 26, be allowed to join her husband, Alexei Semyonov, in the U.S. Sakharov, 60, and his wife Yelena Bonner, 58, who had joined him in the hunger strike, broke their fast upon hearing...
With stunning swiftness, the $6.5 billion battle between Mobil Corp. and U.S. Steel for control of Marathon Oil turned nasty last week. Mobil, still frustrated and angry over its defeat by Du Pont earlier this year in the struggle to take over Conoco, seemed on the brink of losing again. Then Mobil suddenly went on the offensive with a daring ploy. The oil company announced that it intended to buy up to 25% of its bidding rival, U.S. Steel. Said one banker involved in the dealing: "They have tried to put a gun on the head of U.S. Steel...
Mobil's bid for Marathon seemed doomed almost from the start. The company suffered defeat after defeat in a series of legal battles fought on several fronts. Last week a federal district court judge in Cleveland again upheld his own decision that the Mobil takeover would reduce competition among gasoline retailers in the Middle West and should not be permitted. Only a few days earlier, another federal court judge in Columbus denied Mobil's request to stop U.S. Steel's offer for Marathon...
Marathon's executives and their advisers were confident last week that they could defeat Mobil's latest threat. If the oil company starts buying U.S. Steel stock, the price of it is likely to shoot upward, which would make the deal less attractive. And under a federal law that requires prior notice for the purchase of large blocks of stock, Mobil has to wait at least 30 days before it can begin to acquire any more shares of U.S. Steel. But although Mobil's latest shot seems likely to fail, no one is underestimating the oil company...