Word: liquidation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hannah, 60, a wealthy Houston land developer and space buff, had failed on his first try: a year ago, near the same Matagorda launching pad, SSI's inaugural rocket, built for $1.2 million by a young self-taught engineer, blew up during a test of its liquid-fuel engine. Chastened, Hannah got serious. He hired an experienced California contractor who had built 22 rockets for the Government, got a solid-fuel Minuteman motor from the National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration (cost: $365,000), and hired Slayton and seven other full-time employees to help...
Thus it is hardly surprising that this liquid treasure is being eyed covetously by those less richly endowed, who live in what Michigan Governor William Milliken scornfully dubs the "parch-belt": the water-poor states of the West and the Sunbelt. Milliken and other Great Lakes Governors fear that as the need for water grows in these areas during the coming decade, there will develop a prodigious national thirst for Great Lakes water. Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus goes so far as to predict that Great Lakes states, along with Ontario, could become "the OPEC of water...
...author Halldor Laxness found the murderous fascination of war in the Old Norse texts of Scaldic poetry, the hymns of the "kill spree." The poets were particular about the best light and color for battle: "The hour before daybreak is all right because it lends to the crimson of liquid blood a nice admixture of an azure sky and the silvery gray of the fading moon...
Wherever they eat, executives claim that the business breakfast is more productive than a long, and often liquid, lunch. While traditional brunch beverages like Bloody Marys and screwdrivers are rare, the corporate breakfast need not be spartan. Some executives prefer such healthy dishes as wheat germ and yogurt, but others indulge in eggs Benedict or Viennese crepes. In Minneapolis kippered herring and whitefish are favorites...
...Liquid Balls...