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Hutchison was built in taipan (big boss) style by Sir Douglas Clague, a 59-year-old Rhodesia-born Englishman. Under his aegis the company boosted profits from $3 million in 1969 to $27 million in 1973, mainly by buying up other companies at a headlong pace. To pay for them, it floated no fewer than ten stock issues in three years, ballooning the number of shares outstanding from 13 million in 1971 to 269 million in May of this year. Between mid-1973 and last December, however, a crash on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and declining confidence in Hutchison...
...rounds, three separate battles were fought. The first three rounds belonged to Ali. He landed clean, quick, stinging shots that made Frazier sag, and he blunted Frazier's headlong attack by blocking punches as he backed against the ropes. When Ali went hunting, it was on flat feet, in search of the knockout punch. But he never found it. In Round 4, the second battle began. Frazier, having weathered his customary slow start, set to work, pounding lefts to the chin through Ali's gloves. He bothered Ali on the ropes with more uppercuts, body punches and fast...
...boot, with its tiny steel tongue, flashed out. Bond felt a sharp pain in his right calf... Numbness was creeping up Bond's body ... There was no feeling in his fingers ... Breathing became difficult ... Bond pivoted slowly on his heel and crashed headlong to the wine-red floor...
Portugal's headlong plunge toward Communist rule was suddenly stalled last week, first by an outbreak of violence in the northern and central regions of the country, and then by an open split in the ruling Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.). The split was so serious that it could easily lead to the resignation of the Communist-lining Premier, Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, and the beginning of a more moderate national policy that the vast majority of the Portuguese people would wholeheartedly welcome. But it could also widen to the point of civil...
ALTHOUGH IT is impossible to predict what will happen in the next few months on Mission Hill, several possibilities could occur. The BRA will probably hold as many community meetings as possible until it determines it can go ahead and hold a board meeting on the project without running headlong into violent community opposition. At that point, largely because the Mission Hill opposition lacks clout with City Hall in this highly political process, the BRA can in the long run give Harvard the go-ahead to break ground...