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MAINE (58): Kelly Nobert 4-0--8; Lauree Gott 5-3--13; Elizabeth Coffin 9-5--23; Mary Walker 2-0--4; Sonya Wedge 2-4--8; Katherine Shorey 0-0--0; Lynne McGouldrick 0-0--0; Deborah Ann Duff 1-0--2; Crystal Cummings 0-0--0. Total...
...collision seemed nothing more than a mild jolt. It felt, said Lady Cosmo Duff Gordon, "as though somebody had drawn a giant finger along the side of the ship." She started up in bed, but everything was quiet, so she lay back again. It was 11:40 p.m. Up in the first-class smoking room, where a group of young men were playing a last few rounds of cards, the grinding sound disturbed the game. Several of the players wandered out into the freezing night to take a look. "We hit an iceberg--there it is," somebody said...
Corporations too have been dashing into debt. "Most of the borrowing increase by corporations has been the result of takeover mania," says William Cornish, executive vice president of Chicago's Duff & Phelps, a securities research firm. "Either companies want to add to their holdings or they fear that someone wants to take them over." In evading Raiders Carl Icahn and T. Boone Pickens, Phillips Petroleum took on $4.5 billion in new loans. It now plans to sell about $2 billion worth of assets in the next twelve months to trim its obligations. Chevron borrowed $10 billion to acquire Gulf...
...junior senator was by John Duff, chancellor of the Mass Board of Regents, student leaders from area colleges, and other state official...
William Hogan, a steel economist at Fordham University, called the combination a "good fit." Concurred Analyst Dick McClow of Duff & Phelps, a Chicago brokerage: "U.S. Steel kept saying it was committed to the steel business. I guess this shows the company meant...