Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Schlesinger, a Yale graduate, is so newcomer to the sport of long-distance running, his 2:11:54 third-place finish was the biggest surprise in the largest marathon the world...
...long time. It preoccupied him. It took up hours of his time. Schlesinger wanted to be a great runner. And last Sunday, the first-year Law School student saw his dream come true when he beat almost 15,000 runners, to take third place in the New York City Marathon...
...acre tract submitted by a group of companies led by the Sohio Alaska Petroleum Co., an exploration subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, and including Mobil Corp. and British Petroleum Alaska Exploration. Their bid for that choice tract far outstripped the $129 million offered by Exxon and Marathon Oil, which was bought in March by U.S. Steel. Another group led by Texaco, which is seeking to increase its holdings in the Prudhoe Bay region, weighed in with the second-highest successful bid for a tract near the Sohio purchase: $219 million...
...successful modeling career, however is not one of Pearson's top priorities. He is currently training daily in hopes of qualifying for the 1984 Olympic trials as a marathoner. He estimates that he has run more than 20 marathons in the past five years and he turned in a very respectable time of two hours, 21 minutes and 40 seconds in the 1981 Boston marathon...
America has become inured to colossal business mergers in the last two years. Weddings like those of Occidental Petroleum and Cities Service, United States Steel and Marathon Oil, and the record-setting $7.5 billion union of Du Pont and Conoco have sometimes been shotgun affairs, sometimes harmonious ones. Throughout, the national press has doled out coverage indiscriminately in its continual search for bigness...