Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Karpov beat Korchnoi six games to five in their 93-day 1978 marathon, but not before they exchanged charges about the use of "evil eyes," illegal signals with yogurt cartons, and microphones hidden in chairs. This second championship Karpov-Korchnoi meeting-"K-2" to insiders-is well on the way to becoming as byzantine and acrimonious as the first. The stakes this time: $260,000 and world bragging rights for the winner, $160,000 and humiliation for the loser...
Detroit's paucity of new models this fall is a by-product of the marathon race U.S. manufacturers are running to catch up with Japanese and European companies in developing small cars. High interest rates have also hurt foreign car sales, but those manufacturers continue to make inroads. About one of every three new cars sold in the U.S. is now a foreign model, and in California, Oregon and Washington imports have 50% of the market. To keep the situation from becoming worse, American automakers about two years ago abandoned the traditional fall introduction and now rush their...
Three times a week, on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, both parts will run in one day. Bernard Jacobs, president of the Shubert Organization, hopes audiences will try to attend the all-day marathon, "participating with the actors in a survival experience." It might seem like an endurance test to devote an entire day to a single show; but then, this show is all about survival and transcendence. Behind its overt stage action is the unlikely but compelling story of how a struggling theater company found its soul and its success with the same desperate gamble ?risking everything...
...first set against Sheehan, 6-4, but then faltered in the next two, 3-6, 4-6. The freshman's style of play, an aggressive serve-and-volley game, worked against her Saturday as Sheehan used consistent baseline play to wear out her rival over the course of the marathon match...
...United Technologies ($59 to $44); McDonnell Douglas ($37 to $30); and Raytheon ($49 to $40). Among energy stocks, Cities Service, a strong gainer only a short time earlier as a result of takeover and merger talk, lost $20 per share in three weeks and sank to $46. Marathon, another favorite among oil stocks, skidded from $80 to $62 in four weeks...