Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer of 1931. Millions are unemployed. What people need is something to take their minds off the Depression. Charles C. Flanagan, a flamboyant character composed of equal parts of FT. Barnum, Texas Guinan and unadulterated chutzpah, conceives of a marathon to end all marathons, a 3,000-mile foot race that begins in the Los Angeles Coliseum and ends, months later, in New York's Central Park. To make it interesting, he offers $300,000 in prize money...
...have spent $182 billion to merge with or acquire other firms. Companies, though, often complete a deal only to have Washington veto it as anticompetitive. Last year Mobil Corp. announced plans to spend an estimated $6.5 billion in what eventually turned out to be a futile struggle to acquire Marathon Oil Co. The takeover was blocked in federal court because it was decided that such a merger would have an adverse effect on competition in gasoline retailing in the Midwest...
...concluded, the takeover would rank as the third largest in U.S. corporate history, surpassed only by last year's $7.5 billion merger of Conoco and E.I. Du Pont de Nemours, and the $6.2 billion acquisition of Marathon Oil by U.S. Steel. The resulting company would instantly become the seventh largest American industrial firm, with sales exceeding $36 billion...
...Taras' observation suggests why the all-Stravinsky marathon was a success anyway. The troupe gathered and displayed its grand heritage, the modern classics (among them Apollo, Orpheus, Agon, Symphony in Three Movements) that Balanchine has set to Stravinsky over a period of 50 years. Balanchine worked out key elements of his style-bold, intricate, whip-fast-to this music. Stravinsky's rhythms and punctuation are the idiom of City Ballet dancers, so that their stab-kicking, hip-swiveling, long-leaping display is a unique ballet chronicle...
...York has more professional sports than boroughs. Boston has Larry Bird. Carl Yastrzemski and the Marathon. Los Angeles has Magic Johnson and Steve Garvey; Alabama has The Tide, and Indianapolis has The Race. Each year on the Sunday before Memorial Day, an estimated 375,000 people gather for "The Greatest Single-Day Sporting Event In The World," the Indy 500. Officially the race doesn't have a name. it is the only event held at the Indianapolis Motor Speed-way each year, and the tickets say simply, "500 mile race." But to a large segment of the American auto-racing...