Word: foe
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...Green machine used to be the Jolly Green Giant of Ivy League football, a feared foe both in and out of Ancient Eight competition...
That's all if the established order holds. But like their namesakes, the 1985 Minutemen have demonstrated that they have the determination and guile to embarass their scarlet, er, Crimson foe...
...temper. Common sense crowds out darker impulses, and after eating crow for half an hour on prime time, the President -- and the country -- mercifully moved on. Now, like his predecessor, Reagan is learning that moving the fleet and grimacing on television have little effect on a fanatic foe...
While Puccio is being showered with public accolades, however, some of his legal colleagues in New York City have private reservations. Says one old Puccio foe: "There is no limit to which he wouldn't go to get an advantage." A former courtroom opponent who on the record calls Puccio "a very aggressive, very able lawyer," adds confidentially, "I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw a grand piano." Puccio, the former chief prosecutor of Abscam, knows he rubs many in the legal Establishment the wrong way. "I'm very noninstitutional," he acknowledges. "I'm uncontrollable...
...Texas raider ran into a totally determined foe in Unocal Chairman Fred Hartley. His company managed to repel Pickens primarily with a $3.6 billion offer to buy up part of its outstanding stock for $72 a share, compared with the raider's bid of $54. Ordinarily Pickens would have responded by simply cashing in his 12% share of the company and walking away with a fat profit. Unocal made him exempt from the offer, however, which was a daring strategy since companies generally presume that the law requires them to treat all stockholders equally. Yet in a surprising reversal...