Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...under the burden of Cities Service, for which it shelled out $4 billion last year. Oxy's long-term debt has now jumped from $1 billion to $5 billion, while its earnings have dropped from $722 million to $221 million. Similarly, U.S. Steel fought off Mobil to rescue Marathon Oil and is now struggling with the $6.7 billion price of its chivalry. Its steel business is down sharply, and while Marathon's earnings were at a record high last year, they are currently threatened by the downturn in oil prices. To help compensate, Big Steel...
...most of the councillors contacted yesterday did not oppose the mayor's action. After two consecutive marathon sessions trying to hammer out zoning changes for the last large tract of undeveloped land in Cambridge, they said they were looking forward to the unusually restful Monday night...
...even more of a Super Bowl tradition than the half-time spectacles are the pre-and post-game shows. I think that these moments are really what the Super Bowl is all about. These are the part of the marathon broadcast that make sure all the sponsors get a chance to show their advertisements at least 10 times each...
...marathon has attracted international publicity. Locally, a bar keeps a blackboard with a running tally of odds on the probable winner. MacKay is currently ahead at 8 to 1. But his wife confesses to mixed feelings about the venture. "Sometimes I think my husband is nuts," Linda sighs. "But I am with him 100%." MacKay, who keeps busy by teaching himself to play the guitar, seems prepared for a long sojourn. "It's like putting money into a used car," he says. "I've got too much in this now to give...
...former prodigy became even more prodigious. At 69, he played a marathon cycle in New York City that consisted of 17 compositions for piano and orchestra, on five programs, within two weeks; in 1961 he gave ten Carnegie Hall concerts in one season. Conductor Edouard van Remoortel was probably not exaggerating when he said that Rubinstein was "the only pianist you could wake up at midnight and ask to play any of 38 major piano concertos." Before blindness put an end to his public career in 1976, he was playing up to 100 concerts a year...