Word: fray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offer touched off a frenzy among Wall Street arbitragers, who snapped up Time stock in the belief that Paramount would prevail or attract other bidders into the fray. Time shares skyrocketed from 126 to 170 on Wednesday and finished the week at 170 1/4. Since Wall Street investors considered all three companies now to be in play, Warner stock jumped to 56 1/8, up 4 points for the week, and Paramount rose...
...Glimp have encountered public backlash whenever they have entered the political fray. This April, when Glimp helped Stanford University President Donald Kennedy '52 publish an advertisement in Harvard Magazine warning alumni not to support "single-issue candidates," he was widely criticized...
...accommodation seemed not to come easy for administrators and professors used to a higher degree of control. During the heated Board of Overseers campaign, officials joined in the fray, accusing the opposition of not having the University's best interests at stake. And in the Faculty, a new affirmative action plan, released more than a year after undergraduates demanded hiring reform, spurred student protest and professorial skepticism...
...reminded of another time and another place. "It looked like Manila in 1986, when the Filipinos flooded the streets demanding the ouster of Ferdinand Marcos," said Burton. "There was the same improvisational air as people who had never protested before climbed on their bicycles and pedaled into the fray...
...statements. Most Swiss banks use evasive but perfectly legal bookkeeping that eliminates disclosures about the performance of parts of their holdings. What remains to be seen is how vigorously the banks will defend themselves against the reform wave and whether their reputation for probity and prudence will survive the fray...