Word: goliaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First David beat Goliath. Then the tortoise beat the hare. And Sunday, the Big Red lady hoopsters of Cornell knocked off the Big Green of Dartmouth...
...underdog story. The David and Goliath story keeps working its way out," says Coles, a true Pats fan. "It's a question of whether to dream and hope the dream comes true or to be a realist and say, 'oh well, they're going to lose...
Obviously, Carol Trowbridge--with one case already splashed across newspaper headlines--had no stake in agreeing to stay quiet. She had suffered through the emotionally draining trauma of the assault and a criminal trial, but when she was faced with the prospect of a prolonged legal battle with the Goliath of the Square's landlords, she threw in the towel...
Throughout his three-month effort to take over CBS, Ted Turner, the owner of Cable News Network, has projected himself as a modern David battling a broadcasting Goliath. Now it appears that Turner will need more than one well- aimed rock to bring down CBS. Last week the company hurled back a tough rejoinder, offering to buy 21% of its stock for $955 million, or $150 a share. Speaking to stock analysts in a Manhattan studio where the soap opera As the World Turns used to be filmed, CBS Chairman Thomas Wyman announced that the company will give stockholders...
...pride captured perfectly, if unwittingly, the country's paradoxical fate: having prevailed over a superpower, Viet Nam has yet to come wholly to grips with itself. The nine aging Politburo members who waved stiffly from a reviewing stand could relish the memory of how they had stripped the American Goliath of $150 billion, 58,022 lives and, for a while, some of its self-confidence. But ten years after its moment of glory, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam has little else to cheer about. Its army, the world's fourth largest (1.2 million men), remains...