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...before taking on the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Gore has at least 14 more debates to go with his fellow Democrats, followed by what could be a donnybrook of a convention in Atlanta. Last week he was working his way through the South, heading from there to New Hampshire. Then on to Iowa, where he hopes to find the crowds warmed up by -- who else? -- his father. Albert Sr. has been vigorously campaigning there as a surrogate for his son. By this week he will have hit all 99 counties in the state, giving...
Frost, 38, touched off a whistle-blowing donnybrook about a year ago by advising supervisors not to place $100 million in district funds with a shaky New Jersey securities firm. When the company collapsed, Frost embarrassed Mayor Marion Barry's administration with an "I told you so" city council appearance. Earlier this month someone gained access to Frost's computer data, extracted a letter he had written to Barry charging the city's top financial managers with "incompetence, mismanagement . . . intimidation and indifference," and leaked it to local newspapers. After Frost's electronic lockout, his superiors announced they had bypassed...
After Tom Fergus and Keith Crowder boosted Boston's lead to 7-2 with goals early in the third period, the game turned into a donnybrook with seven separate fights...
...stirred up last summer when Bendix Chairman William M. Agee, 45, made a surprise tender offer for the shares of MX missile contractor Martin Marietta. But Martin Marietta turned the tables on Agee. The company promptly retaliated by trying to buy Bendix, and the result was a corporate donnybrook in which the two companies acquired huge chunks of each other and made headlines in the process. Finally Allied was called in by Bendix to buy Bendix stock and save it from falling into the clutches of Martin Marietta...
...starting Oct. 1, 1985, if deficits are still more than 2.5% of the G.N.P, or approximately 5100 billion. Majority Leader Howard Baker also denigrated the contingency tax plan as an invitation to unrestrained spending, and added that the proposed increases in the defense budget would cause 'a real donnybrook, a ferocious debate...