Word: marathoned
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...formula for stardom," says O'Brien of his candidate's appeal. "But it starts when she looks at an audience, whether one person or 10,000, and actually sees them, engages them." Ferraro's confidence got a boost in late August, after her performance at a marathon press conference concerning her finances. "When she saw how bowled over everyone was," says an aide, "well, she's been running free ever since. That convinced her that the public and press would buy her exactly...
...Rolm is approved, as expected, by federal antitrust authorities, it will be the first time that IBM has bought 100% of a firm since its 1962 purchase of an educational publishing house. In 1969 the Justice Department sued IBM for trying to monopolize the computer business, and that marathon case inhibited the company from shopping for partners. The shackles came off in 1982 when the Government dropped the suit...
...suprised and puzzled by the finding," said Branch, himself a marathon runner. "My own values contradict these results," he added...
...Thursday, the company put its second wage proposal on the table. It represented only a modest improvement over GM's earlier offer to replace annual 3% pay increases with lump-sum payments totaling $900 during the first two years of the contract. The two sides then went into marathon sessions, but progress was slow. By late Friday night, Bieber saw that there was scant chance of reaching a final agreement by the midnight deadline...
...felt proud when I read George Plimpton's account of the Haitian marathon runner Dieudonne Lamothe, who came in last [SPORT, Aug. 27]. As a Haitian, I am accustomed to reading only bad reports about my people. Lamothe at least finished the race, which more than a quarter of the runners failed to do. After all, the point of the Games is to participate...