Word: pan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virtual monopoly on sales of passenger jets to U.S. airlines. Last week the American companies sustained a damaging air raid. Airbus Industrie, the European consortium of French, British, West German and Spanish plane builders, announced a $1 billion deal to deliver 28 of its new jets to Pan Am, a longtime Boeing customer. The European aviation industry exulted over the agreement, dubbing it the contract of the century...
...real story, then, is about Nancy Riggings from Fort Worth. Or Nancy Riggins the maid from Chicago. Or Nancy Riggins the bed pan cleaner in Little Rock. Or Nancy Riggins the single unemployed mother in a Roxbury. Or Nancy Riggins the illegal immigrant from Mexico who works in the factory for a buck and a half an hour...
...Nestlé-Carnation deal continues a streak of mergers in the competitive food industry. Last month Chicago's Beatrice (Tropicana, La Choy) bought Esmark (Swift, Peter Pan) for $2.8 billion. Two weeks ago, Ralston Purina agreed to acquire ITT's Continental Baking division for $475 million. One reason for the takeovers is that business has turned sluggish as a result of the slowdown in U.S. population growth. Thus the easiest way for food companies to grow is to take over other firms. And as the Carnation purchase indicated, cows that are too contented may find themselves...
...ability to evoke a world of childlike innocence has made him the Peter Pan of rock. But the same androgynous appeal has also spawned some fantasies about the true nature of Michael Jackson, 26. Fed up with speculation that he is bisexual or gay, Jackson threw down his spangled gauntlet and called a press conference last week. In a statement read by Manager Frank Dileo in Los Angeles, Jackson, who lives with his parents in Encino, Calif., categorically denied that he had ever "taken hormones to maintain my high voice" or "had cosmetic surgery on my eyes." Furthermore, he threatened...
...upper, Carrie lower). Steinseifer, a happy camper whose blond hair had just been whacked off in Olympic punk style by Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, had been only vaguely concerned with the 1980 boycott because "I wasn't really into swimming then." Last year she won a gold at the Pan American Games. Now here she was, wearing out the water with her thrashing crawl. Then, on the other side, in Lane 5, Annemarie Verstappen of The Netherlands, a lanky and apparently boneless 19-year-old, pulled to the slightest of leads. But 25 meters from the finish, Hogshead caught Verstappen...