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...book's protagonist, Jayson Lyman, is an investment banker who grips his peach-colored Financial Times "like a swagger stick." Advised by his boss that French magnate Marcel Bresson is out to buy News/Worldweek, Lyman is ready to leap to the American company's defense. "You mean foreigners, the French of all people, think they can take over the biggest media company in America? They'll get their butts kicked!" But Lyman's boss informs him that their firm has been retained by the other side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merger Mystery: Is the media mogul a mole? | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

Upsets in college basketball share a curious commonality with the inception of the game. The name basketball was derived from peach baskets that served as goals, and the word "upset" originates from the turned up, or upset, such as edges of baskets in the 19th century...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: Can Cagers Add to History of Upsets? | 2/11/1989 | See Source »

...snack. For the only time in my memory, the fridge was empty. No longer did cold cuts spill out of the meat drawer. Gone were the two gallon jumbo containers of orange juice and the six packs of vanilla pudding. Lost forever were the leftover pieces of peach pie or the cold chicken...

Author: By Matt Pinsker, | Title: Back and Better Than Ever | 11/30/1988 | See Source »

...Rourke pops up in the middle of Beirut's factional bloodlettings, Israel's civil strife and South Korea's ritualized clashes between students and police. The camouflage uniforms of Syrian commandos are peach and purple, which "must give excellent protective coloration in, say, a room full of Palm Beach divorcees in Lily Pulitzer dresses." On Sandinistas as an attraction for junketeers: "There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wise Guy | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...block and around the corner, there was asmaller sign at a buffet. Walking down the darkstairway, I was greeted by a hearty 30-year-oldwith spiky hair and a peach sweatshirt. He wouldhave to check with his brother first; it would be8 to 4, cashier work. He was so friendly, and thebrotherly business atmosphere was so appealing,that I felt bad that I wouldn't be calling him onMonday--though walking daily into a basement couldget depressing...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Situations Wanted | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

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