Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talks culminated in a marathon meeting between Harry Gray and Thomas Pownall, president of Martin Marietta, on the afternoon and evening of Sept. 2 at the offices of United's New York City lawyers. With a handshake shortly before midnight, the two executives agreed that both their companies would offer to buy Bendix for approximately $1.5 billion. If a majority of Bendix shareholders sold out to either of them, the winner would assume control of Bendix, and then the two firms would carve up the captured company. The details have not been worked out, but United would probably take...
...brokers who work the floor of the Big Board, the past two weeks have been as exhausting and exhilarating as a triumphant run in a marathon race. Never have they logged so many miles rushing between the buzzing telephones along the walls of the exchange and the bustling trading posts in the middle. Never have the stock prices, which are flashed in green on the electronic tapes overhead, surged, dipped and surged again with such stupefying speed. Never have so many big deals been executed one after another. "It feels like you can never get done," says Harry Buonocore...
...Early Today, a 6:30 a.m. curtain raiser to the 30-year-old Today show, which airs at 7 a.m. To come in October are an ABC hour of news and talk from midnight to 1 a.m., featuring Interviewer Phil Donahue, and a CBS marathon from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. that will lead into the network's Morning News from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. CBS was first to announce its move, but it will be the last into the fray. Claims a CBS executive: "We want to get it right the first time...
...schedules, deployment of personnel--White briskly showed how every little tactical choice carried the potential for making or breaking a campaign. And in 1976, when White refrained from writing about the presidential sweepstakes, no one else's electoral post mortem could fill the void. Jules Witcover's painstakingly researched Marathon came surprisingly close, but even casual readers of the genre could see it lacked the romance of The Making of the President series...
...McNab, a Glasgow-born track man who served as script consultant for the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire, makes the marathon seem real as he assembles a memorable cast, including a snake-oil salesman, a determined Scot, an underweight Mexican and such historical folks as Al Capone, members of the Industrial Workers of the World and a handful of Hitler Youth. On the way, Flanagan's Run captures the masochistic ecstasy of long-distance running. No one who runs, walks or just sits in an armchair and reads will fail to cross McNab's taut finish line...