Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between regional institutions. In the South, the decision immediately cleared the way for Citizens & Southern (assets $8 billion), Georgia's largest bank-holding company, to acquire Landmark Banking Corp. (assets $3.8 billion). Harry Keefe Jr., chairman of the Wall Street brokerage firm of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, predicts that the pace of acquisitions will accelerate. "There are only 22 institutions with assets of $20 billion or more," he notes. "That figure should double in the next five years...
Tuning in to CBS's continuing battle to stave off a takeover by Ted Turner is like following one of the network's own soap operas: the plot seems to unfold at a painstakingly slow pace. But that is just the story line that CBS likes. Steady resistance and attack on all fronts seems to be CBS's strategy in its efforts to thwart the flamboyant entrepreneur's hostile bid. Some observers are comparing it with ABC's determined opposition in the 1960s to attempted takeovers by Norton Simon and Howard Hughes...
...eight languages. His second novel, which arrives in the U.S. trailing clouds of praise from England, Germany, Canada and Australia, may do just as well. True, the sex this time around is considerably muted. But moods have changed over the past 20 years, and Vizinczey has cannily kept pace. The prime aphrodisiacs of the ^ '80s seem to be money and greed, and An Innocent Millionaire offers a spellbinding combination of both...
FOOTNOTE: *Presidential martini rhetoric has inflated at a pace roughly equal to that of the economy. According to former Senator Eugene McCarthy, John F. Kennedy spoke disparagingly of the "martini lunch" and 1972 Democratic Presidential Candidate George McGovern inveighed against the "two-martini lunch." Jimmy Carter, a no-martini Baptist, raised the critical count to three...
...book's great length and leisurely pace convey the sense of a bygone era, while the author's attachment to misfits and backwaters never goes out of style. Neither does his premise: two aging gunfighters give it one more shot. Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are descended from the noble buddy system of American literature. Exotically paired males, like Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook, Ishmael and Queequeg, Huck and Jim, fling themselves at the wilderness and sooner or later paddle into the mainstream. McCrae and Call join the mythic flow by stealing a herd of Mexican cattle and driving them from...