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...mood that will engulf Briggs Athletic Center after tomorrow night's final regular-season basketball game will reflect a state of pandemonium or profound sorrow...
...Kissinger or a Weinberger. The SYL is looking for a few John Reeds (Class of '10) who fight imperialist war by fighting the capitalist system that breeds war. John us in the fight for a socialist future--now--before the Harvard-trained war criminals in power engulf all of our futures in a nuclear holocaust. Tom Crean '86 Spartacus Youth League
...into Gulf & Western Industries (1982 sales: $5.3 billion). Bluhdorn eventually bought some 100 companies large and small, ranging from Paramount Pictures to publisher Simon & Schuster to New York City's Madison Square Garden. In one six-year period, he brought 80 firms into what became jokingly known as "Engulf and Devour." Bluhdorn died in February at 56 after a heart attack, and his successors are in no mood to keep up that pace. They are contracting Gulf & Western almost as fast as Bluhdorn expanded...
...colored floodlighting, the scene takes on an cerie dimension. Gone is the division into rooms as space loses its objective reality. The players occupy the entire floor. Droning synthesizer music in the background completes the setting for the final confrontations and decisions. O'Neill's themes, death and guilt, engulf the whole stage...
Gasoline price wars are often fought over a profitable intersection and sometimes engulf an entire city. Never before, however, has the entire U.S. been involved. With gasoline consumption declining, the battle has proved to be exceedingly costly to oil companies and retailers alike. According to Analyst Dan Lundberg, the average price per gallon fell an astonishing 150 between July 1982 and last February, from about $1.30 to about $1.15. Lundberg says only a nickel of the drop is attributable to a decline in the price of crude. The other 10? came out of the oil companies' profits and cost...