Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...League's toughest competitors at 177 lbs., Joe Rojas, who earlier this year defeated the only grappler Farrell has lost to--a 177-lb. Princeton wrestler--this season. Farrell, wrestling aggressively, jumped out to a 5-2 advantage and lead all the way en route to a tough-fought 8-5 triumph...
Yesterday, in a closely-fought match, San Pedro lost, 6-4, as his opponent took an early lead and held off the freshman's third-period comeback attempt...
...buyout spree has created yet another powerful incentive for restructuring: fear of takeover. In many cases, corporations have fought off raiders only by buying up huge amounts of their own stock, and along the way accumulating huge amounts of debt. Once the threat has passed, firms have been forced to restructure to regain profitability. In other cases, they have slashed costs and boosted profitability precisely to keep their stock prices above the level at which they would attract bargain-hunting takeover sharks, who are likely to chop far more brutally and indiscriminately than the present managements. No less a titan...
Sometimes a city is hurt when its leading company becomes embroiled in a takeover fight. As headquarters for Phillips Petroleum (1986 revenues: $10 billion), Bartlesville, Okla. (pop. 35,000), paid its own price after the eighth largest U.S. oil company fought off takeover raids by T. Boone Pickens Jr. in 1984 and by Carl Icahn the following year. Though Phillips kept its independence, it took on some $4.5 billion in new debts and was forced to shed $2 billion in assets in a subsequent reorganization. Partly as a result, Phillips employment in Bartlesville, which had peaked...
...first four years, when the White House staff was run by the Meese- Deaver-Baker troika, a combine widely hailed by the press for its success, Speakes was cut out of the inner loop and often operated in ignorance of events, for which the same group condemned him. "I fought my way off the floor," recalled Speakes. "When I finally got into the meetings, I had a seat in the corner. When I finally got up to the table, I didn't have any papers or charts...