Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week began, corporate raiders seemed to have been cowed by the surge in anti-takeover sentiment. That mood may have helped persuade Revlon Group Chairman Ronald Perelman to give up his hostile $4.1 billion offer to buy Gillette, the razor-blade maker. Probably more important, though, was the ! fast $34 million that Revlon earned by promising to back off. Investors branded the payoff as a clear case of greenmail, since Gillette agreed to buy back Perelman's 13.9% stake in the company at a premium price that was unavailable to other shareholders...
Harvard hockey is fast. Forwards don't get trapped often in the corners but cruise down the center of the ice, flicking passes back and forth. Precision. Pretty...
...said that for the handicapped, the process of renovating "is never fast enough...
Harvard's fast break, a key factor in Harvard's early-season wins, also proved relatively useless in the face of N.U.'s strong ball-handling and quickness. "They were quicker, faster and stronger," Keffer said...
...while the defense works on a more intensepress, the offense is taking advantage of theteam's quickness to fast break more frequently...