Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Fund and Cove Trust are private contributors to programs to fight homelessness, while the Cambridge Fund for the Homeless is administered by the city DHSP, Lee said...
While the suitors struggled to come to terms, a sudden truce was called in another huge takeover fight when Kraft ('87 revenues: $10 billion) agreed to be acquired by Philip Morris ($28 billion). Hamish Maxwell, chairman of Philip Morris, said he will not have to sell off chunks of Kraft to finance the buyout. Said he: "For the vast majority of Kraft workers, this won't have any impact at all." The Philip Morris coup was an unusually smooth resolution. Another KKR fight fizzled last week when the Macmillan publishing firm accepted a $2.5 billion offer from British financier...
...this is not the main thing. What's at issue now is not his mistakes but the line that he embodies and carries out. If he were not there, Stalinists could seize power and nobody knows what would happen. It's necessary to put up a fight and prevent the ouster of Khrushchev...
...time we didn't know that my father had already decided to retire without putting up a fight. Late at night he called Mikoyan and said that if everyone wanted to relieve him of his posts, he would not object. Our telephone was bugged and his words became known immediately to his opponents, but we knew nothing. The whole morning of the 14th of October passed in exhausting expectation. At last there was a phone call from the Kremlin to say that he was on his way home...
...month, the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party will begin. The Rev. Jesse Jackson will try to get his point man, Washington, D.C. lawyer Ron Brown elected to the chair of the the Democratic National Committee. Conservative Democrats, lamenting the Republican electoral lock on the South, will fight for a more moderate alternative. The result of this election will be a key indication of how the Democratic Party's future will be charted over the next four years...