Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversial decision to allow the joining of the nation's seventh (Jones & Laughlin) and eighth (Youngstown) largest steelmakers into what will become the third or fourth biggest clearly hinged on Lykes' doomsday prediction. That prophecy could have proved self-fulfilling, because customers, suppliers and creditors all began to abandon the company for fear it would collapse. Bell rejected his own in-house advice that Lykes could be saved and competition maintained by selling assets to raise cash. The weakness of the company, he said, "led me to conclude that Lykes faced a grave probability of a business failure...
Shosha, Singer's eighth novel, is thus a variation on a theme that the author has played many times before, and not a whitless enjoyable for that. Among his many accomplishments, Singer is a master at showing how familiarity can breed contentment. Here again is Warsaw when hailing a cab meant finding a horse-drawn droshky; here are the smells and sounds of Krochmalna Street, the intrigue and gossip at the Writers' Club, the dark, snowy vistas on the Vistula...
Though Fenway superstar Mora made it 3-1 with his second four-bagger of the series in the sixth, by then things were pretty much decided and attentions turned towards the Yankee game, which seemed worlds closer at 3-2 in the eighth at Detroit...
Rumors have been swirling for months through business circles from Wall Street to Houston: Gulf Oil Corp., the nation's eighth largest industrial concern (sales last year: $17.8 billion), is in trouble. Though there is no question about the company's survival, it is in the midst of a painful struggle to overcome years of bad luck and fumbling management...
...left field, and Carl Yastrzemski returned to his old haunts from first base. Rice became the designated hitter, and while he still stroked 25 home runs, his average slumped to .282. "You can't stay loose just sitting on the bench waiting to bat in the first, fourth and eighth innings," analyzes Rice. "Staying in the game mentally is even harder...