Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marathon effort: federal investigators had sifted for three years through 45,000 documents and grilled more than 120 witnesses. But only a four- page press release was needed last week to scuttle the Justice Department's inquiry into charges that General Dynamics had falsified information in the 1970s about delivery dates and multimillion-dollar cost overruns on Trident and Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines. Citing the "absence of any reasonable prospect of a successful prosecution," the Justice Department dropped its investigation into the actions of employees of the firm, including then Chairman David Lewis, 69. Said Deputy Assistant Attorney General...
...days a year, 12 to 15 hours a day, she trains her dogs. Butcher and Monson race five to 10 teams a day, building up the dogs' endurance like marathon runners until they can run 26-30 miles. "Then I can go anywhere with them," she says. "This is our basketball team, we have to pick our players, then we have to condition them physically...there is little for anything else...
Some things never change, and the Bruins left Palmer Dixon Courts following a marathon seven-hour match with loss number...
...epic legal fight with Pennzoil. As its stock plummeted and its credit began to dry up, the company was thrown into a financial crisis. Over the weekend, Texaco's board of directors gathered for an emergency meeting at the firm's White Plains, N.Y., headquarters. Following a marathon discussion, the directors chose a stunning course: the eighth largest U.S. industrial corporation (1986 sales: $32.6 billion) and the third-ranking oil firm filed for Chapter 11 protection on Sunday. Texaco suddenly became the biggest company in American history to go into bankruptcy...
Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis was a long-distance runner before it was cool, finishing the Boston Marathon as a high school senior in 1951. His political career had its own Heartbreak Hill, a devastating primary defeat when he first sought re-election as Governor in 1978. But Dukakis hit his stride with a comeback victory in 1982, and since then has compiled a record of achievement from welfare reform to tax reduction that has earned him a laurel wreath as one of the best Governors in the country. Last week Dukakis embarked on the most grueling endurance race of them...