Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dancer's Image down to 7-to-2 second-favoritism that the Derby field was perfectly set up for a horse of his come-from-behind style. At least four of the 14 horses, including Forward Pass, could be counted on to tire each other out in a fight to establish the lead in the mile and one-quarter race. The question in the stretch would simply be whether the late-running Dancer's Image would be able to catch the tiring Forward Pass. It is a tough assignment for any horse; for a sore-ankled champion, tougher still...
...Harvard four-with-cox trailed Pennsylvania from the start, and had to fight an intense battle with the Midshipmen for second place during the first three-quarters mile. Penn's margin: two lengths...
...news his company had heard in months: United Air Lines had decided to buy 30 DC-10s at a total price of $465 million, and had taken options to buy 30 more of the huge three-engine planes. The order put McDonnell Douglas back into the thick of the fight for the international airbus market which is expected to reach at least 1,000 aircraft worth $15 billion in the next decade...
...efforts. "The majority of airlines in the U.S., the Western Hemisphere and overseas requiring planes of this type are still uncommitted," said McDonnell Douglas Chairman James S. McDonnell. Thus even Boeing, which has yet to sell a single airbus, figures that it is still worthwhile to stay in the fight...
...purchases of partly developed tracts have become increasingly enticing because building can start at once, and there is no need to tie up capital in land inventories. But one after another, builders looked at the wreckage of Bellehurst and declined-even after Long Beach Federal S & L settled its fight with the bank board. Finally, Watt hired a computer, made 31 separate runs over the possibilities of profit and cash return, and decided to take the gamble. Since then, the company has also announced plans to take over the unbuilt portion of a grandiose Middlesex County, N.J., project that went...