Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grab a vine, give a yell and prepare to take a leap of faith: they have gone and made an utterly serious Tarzan movie and, believe it or not, it is rather good. Indeed, much of Greystoke is very good, a tender, thoughtful and pictorially beautiful working out of the themes that were implicit in Edgar Rice Burroughs' original conception, but which over 70 years of life in the Hollywood jungle have been choked off by the riotous, unchecked growth of weedy invention and seedy, B-picture convention...
Unlike the public bidding that preceded the Gulf deal, the grab for Superior was made in great secrecy. Using pseudonyms, Mobil President William Tavoulareas traveled to Texas earlier this month to make final arrangements. The merger looks very good for Mobil, which will be paying just under $6 per bbl. for Superior's 1 billion bbl. of oil and liquid natural gas reserves, vs. average exploration costs...
...overweight (202 lbs. on a 5-ft. 5-in. frame) and routinely put in five or six 14-hour, pressure-packed days a week at the office. Rich sauces and fatty meat were his standard fare for both lunch and dinner, and exercise meant reaching under the bed to grab from his stash of pretzels and potato chips. Shragai was a classic candidate for a heart attack, and at the age of 45, he had one. Nine years later he was hospitalized for an operation to bypass five seriously blocked coronary arteries. In desperation, Shragai enrolled himself in U.C.L.A...
Georgia P 84 Glenn is well organized, and Mondale has ties to Jimmy Carter. Jackson hopes to grab black voters, who represent 20% of the total. Hart, whose organization had just one phone last month, is opening new offices...
Corporate executives fear that the congressional actions could lead to tighter shackles on exports. Said Howard Lewis, assistant vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers: "Each time the Export Administration Act has been reauthorized, it has become more and more a grab bag of export disincentives. This is a worrisome trend when we are headed toward a $100 billion trade deficit this year." The Commerce Department underscored Lewis' point last week by announcing that in January alone, the U.S. merchandise trade deficit reached a record $9.47 billion...