Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...topic: the possibility of a Canada-U.S. agreement that may soon create the world's largest free-trade zone. Amid fierce applause, the President promised to throw the full weight of his office behind that much discussed but never quite accomplished prospect. Said Reagan: "To those who would . . . fight a destructive and self-defeating round of trade battles, Canada and the U.S. will show the positive...
...make sure it can still be pushed if something suddenly happens to the President. The novel also gets to the heart of a debate over nuclear strategy: Does it make sense to target the Kremlin and other Soviet command centers? That might serve to destroy Moscow's war-fighting capability, but it could also eliminate its ability to de- escalate a crisis once the shooting begins. This strategy is known as "nuclear decapitation," and Aaron likens it to "two headless chickens" in a fight...
Never have the stakes in a corporate battle been higher. After losing a crucial decision in the U.S. Supreme Court last week, Texaco faced the disastrous prospect of having to post a $10 billion bond in its epic legal fight with Pennzoil. As its stock plummeted and its credit began to dry up, the company was thrown into a financial crisis. Over the weekend, Texaco's board of directors gathered for an emergency meeting at the firm's White Plains, N.Y., headquarters. Following a marathon discussion, the directors chose a stunning course: the eighth largest U.S. industrial corporation (1986 sales...
...Supreme Court's ruling, Texaco Chairman Alfred DeCrane, 55, and Chief Executive James Kinnear, 59, flew with a battery of lawyers from White Plains to Pennzoil's home city of Houston. But Pennzoil's combative chairman, J. Hugh Liedtke, 65, who has stayed on past retirement age to fight the case, steadfastly refused at least ten settlement offers from Texaco. At the start of the talks, Texaco apparently had a figure of $500 million in mind, but Pennzoil was believed to have held out for at least $3 billion...
Guile, however, had no role in the ninth round, when Leonard finished winning the crowd and started finishing the fight. In terrible peril on the ropes, he twice flurried his way out and left Hagler shaking apart and griping aloud for a different kind of fight. Somewhere Leonard found the legs to obey his corner elf Angelo Dundee, who set him to dancing like Ali, complete with funny faces and windmills. Hagler smiled sadly. Before the last round began, Leonard raised a beckoning glove to the crowd, and by following suit Hagler only confirmed whose game they had been playing...