Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, the Crimson enters tonight's fray with no shortage of confidence. "Man for man, we're just as good if not better than they are," Martin said. The Harvard co-captain may have a personal interest in winning, as Springfield's Zenaty coached Mart.., during the National Sports Festival...
...cerie, Prospero-like figure who seems to know what's going on at all the most confusing moments in the movie--these are the film's principal characters. Assorted punks and thugs from at least two underground crime operations and a corrupt chief of police also join in the fray. And an attractive policewoman, who ends up the saving the day, makes a brief but efficient appearance...
...Bendix stock for some $900 million. But Bendix, with 1981 sales of $4.4 billion, had bought 70% of Marietta's shares for $1.2 billion. While Bendix and Marietta were scrapping, Allied Corp., a New Jersey-based conglomerate, with 1981 revenues of $6.4 billion, lumbered into the fray, offering in effect to take over both companies for $2.3 billion...
...year-old chairman of Bendix Corp. thought he had wrapped up one of the biggest business deals of all time last month when Bendix made a hefty $1.5 billion bid for the promising Martin Marietta Corp. But Marietta fought the unfriendly bid, other industrial giants stepped into the fray, and in the end the tables were turned on Agee A third company, Allied Corp., bought Bendix last Friday, turning Agee from conqueror to conquered in the space of a month...
TIMEX. The watchmaker jumped into the computer fray last month with the lowest-priced system, the Timex Sinclair 1000, which sells for just $99. It has less computing power than its rivals, although its capacity can be upgraded. Timex Sinclair has an estimated 26% market share...