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Drawing two Lion defenders with him to the left, Berkman delivered a pinpoint pass to Captain Lance Ayrault, his fellow on the front line, isolated with only one fullback on the right side of the pitch...

Author: By Joseph Garcia, | Title: Booters Fall in OT, 2-1 | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

...Columbia guide, Coach Bob Naso comments on certain aspects of Lion football. The following is his brief dissertation on winning...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Losing the Easy Way | 9/17/1982 | See Source »

...Last winning season before that: 1962 (5-4). The last Columbia head coach who won more games than he lost while at the school: Charles F. Crowley, a Notre Dame graduate (and hence, an obvious winner) who was 26-16-4 during his five-year lenure in a Lion suit. The years were...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Losing the Easy Way | 9/17/1982 | See Source »

Last week Citicorp's pursuit of consumer cash paid its biggest dividend so far. After a four-month campaign that in directly pitted it against the only larger U.S. financial institution, San Francisco's BankAmerica Corp. (assets: $121.5 bil lion), the Federal Home Loan Bank Board approved Citicorp's bid to buy the troubled Fidelity Savings & Loan Association of San Francisco. If upheld by the Federal Reserve Board, as expected, the takeover would mark the first time feder al regulators have allowed a bank holding company to cross both state and industry lines to buy a thrift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cash Clash | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...pursuing a back-to-basics strategy. Said he at May's annual meeting: "We are emphasizing established business lines of demonstrated profitability." Despite ambitious efforts to find new oil, however, Exxon's results have been mixed. Since 1978 its oil reserves have dwindled 13%, to 7 bil lion bbl. In the meantime, costly drilling in the Baltimore Canyon and in the Destin Dome region of the Gulf of Mexico has turned up a discouraging number of dry holes. Wall Street stock analysts think that other oil companies may have greater growth potential, and the price of Exxon stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Times for the Exxon Tiger | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

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