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Word: pacs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beethoven's Seventh, Die Walkure, Mission Impossible and the "Pac Man" theme, to boot...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: The Word is Absurd | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

Four postseason finals--Big Eight, Pac-10, Southwest and Metro--had not been concluded when the committee wrapped up its work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Gets Arizona | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

Walsh also said yesterday that the CTU--"God knows who they are"--should have registered as a political action committee (PAC) before they donated "laundered money" to City Council candidates. Gardner said the group reported its endorsement expenditures to the State Ethics Commission, and was found to have acted legally...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: Tenant Group May Sue Walsh | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...busiest takeover player on Wall Street last year, handling an estimated 174 deals. Serving as masterminds in some of the biggest corporate struggles of the decade, the two men have sparred with raiders ranging from T. Boone Pickens to Carl Icahn and have invented strategies like the "Pac-man" defense, in which a raided company turns around and gobbles up its attacker. Almost every corporate battle in which they have been involved has become the stuff of high drama, from Du Pont's $7.4 billion takeover of Conoco in 1981 to Canadian Robert Campeau's current $5.5 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Way Too Hot to Hold | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...criticize the pitch of my colleague Noah Berger's voice when introducing the Senator at the Science Center. This writer later told me (his own voice unfaltering, and quite a nice tenor) that he didn't like Gary Hart for president because Hart has no endorsements and no PAC money. Critics such as this writer (who worked on the Mondale campaign) are experts on producing unelectable interest candidates and rendering the Democratic party irrelevant in presidential politics. The arguments of such critics, however, are moronic. But all these arguments, that of Mr. Brazatis, that Hart cannot win because he simply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Harsh on Hart | 2/9/1988 | See Source »

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