Word: getting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is the same Foreman who ballooned to 320 lbs. from a fighting trim of 217, and even today at 255 is far beefier than anyone who wants to hold the title should be. As for the recent wins, all were against unknowns or retreads who will probably never get within spitting distance of the Top Ten contenders...
...visions are likely to remain on hold. More Republican political embarrassment also seems inevitable. One of the House subcommittees said it intends to question Carla Hills, now the U.S. Trade Representative and a former Secretary of HUD, about her efforts to help a mortgage company and a developer get HUD contracts...
...despair. A report secretly commissioned by the Sandinistas confirms the country's plight: with an annual per capita income of $300, Nicaragua is possibly the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Unemployment may reach 30% this year. Those who have skills to sell and some place to go get out: more than 10,000 have joined the contra counterrevolution, and at least 250,000 out of the population of 3.5 million have fled, many...
...pull off the deal, Goldsmith and his partners propose to borrow nearly $17 billion. Drexel Burnham Lambert will raise $6.4 billion through a junk- bond issue, and Bankers Trust will assemble a consortium of banks to provide the rest. Yet B.A.T investors would get no cash for their 1.5 billion shares. Instead, Goldsmith and his partners, bidding through a company called Hoylake Investments, would pay B.A.T shareholders a combination of Hoylake stock and loan chits worth $13.82 a share (B.A.T stock was trading at 11.28 in London before the deal was announced). Hoylake would pay down the debts by selling...
Moreover, points out Eugene Cernan, who walked on the moon in 1972, with such a long-range goal "we can then work backward and take the steps to get us there." That would eliminate the let's-build-it-and-see-what-it's-good-for approach. Far from withering, other space initiatives would be lifted by the rising tide of national interest and funding. Unmanned probes to the planets would continue, and NASA would still be able to launch the Mission to Planet Earth, a series of satellites designed to study the planet's environment and give scientists...