Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eight men and one woman from the same office are riding the elevator back to work after lunch. The woman, naturally, is in the back of the elevator, since the men all stood aside to allow her to enter first. When the elevator door opens on the eighth floor...
...veterans up front aretheseniors--Hughes, Purdy and Cochrane. George enters his final year with 121 career points--eighth on the all-time Harvard scoring list. Though he has led the team in scoring for the last three years, Hughes' production has fallen off as his stature around the league has risen. With some consistent scoring help from one or two teammates, George should have his finest season ever...
...largest ad firm last week really was a stunner. Announcing the biggest merger in Madison Avenue history, the Interpublic Group of Companies, the Manhattan-based agency holding company that is the industry's General Motors (1978 billings: $1.9 billion), announced that it was acquiring SSC & B, the U.S.'s eighth largest agency (billings: $750 million), for an undisclosed price. The acquisition of SSC & B (formerly Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles) would boost Interpublic's combined billings to more than $2.6 billion, making it almost twice the size of its nearest international rival, Japan's Dentsu, and all but dwarfing...
John inherited his share of Scotch business acumen and has been running business enterprises since he was a mere toddler. His youthful passion for sports had to be checked when he developed bone chips in his ankles and elbows. Unable to play football, he spent seventh and eighth grade taking photographs of the players on his junior high football team and then sold the glossies to his schoolmates...
Tiant, 38, entered the free-agent draft when the Red Sox management refused to offer him anything more than a one-year contract, because of his age. The herky-jerky motioned pitcher was not selected until the eighth round and by only one team--the Yanks...