Word: herds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quickly corralled a herd of talented young executives from other Dallas-based corporations and moved them into key management slots. After a year-long study of company operations, he reorganized his holdings into three profit centers: real estate (a downtown redevelopment project in Dallas and 2,000 acres of industrial parkland near the Dallas-Fort Worth airport); agriculture (400,000 acres of ranch land in Montana, Texas and Wyoming); and oil, the heart of the empire...
After months of haggling and pleading, H. Johannes Witteveen, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, managed to herd representatives of 14 nations into the Kleber Avenue conference center in Paris last week for some pressing business. Although the nations of the world have been borrowing madly from one another and from private banks, many countries, especially underdeveloped nations of the Third World, are still unable to pay the soaring costs of imported oil. To bail out these nearly bankrupt states, Witteveen wants seven Western nations, led by the U.S., and seven OPEC countries, headed by Saudi Arabia, to raise...
Down Under, on a sprawling 16,000-acre ranch, Michael Kennedy, 19, gamely tried to brand cattle, herd sheep and, noted an observer, "had a go at everything." But what the third son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy really wants to have a go at is salvaging Uncle John's World War II patrol boat, PT109. The boat is thought to lie in 1,400 ft. of water off the Solomon Islands, where it was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in 1943. J.F.K.'s heroic part in the survival of his crew became a legend that...
...When the lights went out, people just said, 'Here's our chance to get back at the mothers who have been ripping us off.' There also was a herd mentality, and many of the kids were egged on by adults who said, 'Hey, go get me this. Hey, go get me that...
...been hard hit. Reason: many teenagers were not exposed in childhood and thus did not develop antibodies against measles. Warns Dr. James Cherry, professor of pediatrics at the University of California in Los Angeles: "What we now have, for the first time in history, is a whole herd of older people who are not immune. I think it is a problem that will increase in magnitude...