Word: knights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...else failed, Time could seek a so-called white knight to save it from Paramount's grasp. But almost any bidder with enough financial backing could jump into the fray without being invited. Moreover, Wall Street analysts believe that all three companies are now up for sale, since their stock is falling into the hands of speculators who will gladly sell to the highest bidder. "I bet none of the three companies will exist a year from now," says Ellen Greenspan, a leading Wall Street arbitrager...
...potentially enormous importance has been passed from East to West during an exhibit of audiocassette wares in Moscow. Three grubby notebooks full of highly technical drawings and mathematical notations also contain some eye- popping assertions: "The American strategists can sleep in peace. Their nightmares cannot be realised. The Soviet knight is dying inside his armour." If true, such statements and the accompanying evidence pointing out the military incompetence of the U.S.S.R. will obviously have profound effects on Western defense policies. On the other hand, the whole thing could be just another piece of devious disinformation...
...father tells a story of a modern knight in fedora and leather jacket, a disinterested seeker of treasure and truth who leaps vast crevices, evades killer boulders, outwits nasty Nazis and dodges vengeful spirits while searching for the legendary Ark of the Covenant. The child is beguiled, and Dad is impressed, despite himself. Pretty good yarn Raiders of the Lost...
...fishermen and townspeople stood at the waterfront in a driving rain and staged a "requiem" for Prince William Sound. State environment commissioner Kelso, on hand to address the group, tried to ease the sense of gloom. He recounted to the throng that on a recent inspection trip to Knight Island he had seen a great pod of whales offshore. There were as many as 40, so close that he could hear the sound of their exhalations when they surfaced and the slap of their flukes when they dived once more. Seeing how the huge sea mammals were skirting...
...Dwayne Andreas, Archer Daniels Midland; J. Robert Ave, Lorillard; C.M. Bishop Jr., Pendleton Woolen Mills; Howard Cooley, Jockey International; Ronald Davis, Perrier; *J.F.A. de Soet, KLM; Patrick Foley, DHL Corp.; R. Michael Franz, Murata Business Systems; Ernest Gallo, Gallo Winery; James Harvey, Transamerica; Kim Duk-Choong, Daewoo Group; Philip *Knight, Nike; Gunter Kramer, BMW; George Lawrence, American Gas Assn.; Richard Maher, Christian Brothers Winery; Henri Michel, Aerospatiale; Mechlin Moore, Insurance Information Insti*tute; Hideo Nakao, NEC Electronics; Steven Ross, Warner Communications; Anton Rupert, Rembrandt Group; Robert Sinclair, Saab; Preston Robert Tisch, Loews; Graham Whitehead, Jaguar...