Word: held
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bought the cookies before last week's news that the management of RJR-Nabisco, a publicly-held consumer products conglomerate, had proposed a $17 billion offer to buy stock and take private ownership of the company. It was the largest buyout bid in history...
...team placed third out of 38 teams, after Yale and the University teams, after Yale and the University of Toronto. Harvard won six of eight games at the four-day tournament, which was held over winter break in Columbus, Ohio...
...Crimson committed only one turnover, held Dartmouth to 27 percent shooting from the floor, and shut down forward Liz Walter, last year's Ivy Player of the Year and currently the Green's leading scorer...
Walter, who netted 12 points in the first half, was held to four in the second by strong defense in the lane from Duncan. Duncan's seven blocks translated into 31 percent shooting from Walter...
...County juvenile - department, floggings were "systematic." Adult staff members, he said, would deal out up to 800 blows with "paddle, electrical cord or similar device," while other children looked on. Four adults, including two who delivered the dead girl to the firehouse, were charged with first-degree manslaughter and held in lieu of $250,000 bail. The children were placed in the protective custody of juvenile authorities...