Word: lion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard intends to avoid that ignoble result Saturday (1:30 p.m., The Stadium), it must contend with a revamped Lion squad. Forget that the Lions have lost 41 straight games. If the Crimson is not on the top of its game, Columbia could be tough...
...Lion Coach Larry McElreavy is winless as Columbia's coach (0-20, 0-2 against Harvard), but he'll have a decent crew at his command Saturday...
...products, they often cannot protect their new markets against giant foreign conglomerates that can knock off their merchandise and mass-produce it at a much lower cost. American companies invented many of the basic technologies behind such products as videocassette recorders and robotics, but Japanese firms have captured the lion's share of the sales in those fields...
...balance Chevalier's move toward Guinness, Racamier then made overtures to his own outside investor: Bernard Arnault, 39, whose group, Financiere Agache, controls the Christian Lacroix and Dior fashion houses. Following protracted negotiations, Agache and Guinness took a joint 24% stake in Moet Vuitton, with Agache holding the lion's share of the investment. Arnault, who is expected to sit on the Moet Vuitton management committee, plans to increase that stake...
Come Friday nights, the boisterous gang congregates at the neighboring bars, the Hawaiian, the Whistle Stop or the Red Lion (a pseudo pub), to swap leg- pulling tales and practice one-upmanship by inventing sidesplitter headlines. Billy Burt, editor of the Examiner, proffers the classic example of HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR as the quintessence of a tabloid art form. Balfour opts for convolution: THE TOASTER POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL or, better, THE DOG THAT SHOT ITS OWNER. All voice serious concern that unimaginative headlines -- GIRL, 11, BECOMES GRANDMOTHER -- are replacing zany eye-catchers -- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS USED MAP PREPARED...