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...course, if Dry has one of his typical 25-for-28, 456-yard efforts, Coach Filling may not have to resort to the Dryrooski to crush Budweiser's dreams of a three-peat...
Budweiser will be trying for the magic three-peat when it faces off against Bud Lite in Sunday's bud Bowl III. Some people think Bud Lite has no chance. Backers of the Litesters are asked, "Why do you think they can win?" Lite rookie QB Bud Dry asks...
...Heaney does literally dig in many of his poems, stripping away the soil layer by layer and showing us the peat, potatoes, bones, down to the "wet centre" of "Atlantic seepage...
...many of his earlier works, particularly, Heaney shows a fascination with the metaphor of archaeology. In poems selected from his books Wintering Out (1972) and North (1975), he deals at length with the "bog people," prehistoric humans whose bodies scientists have recovered, almost perfectly preserved, from peat bogs in Denmark. These long-buried victims of "tribal, intimate revenge" become symbols of the collective subconscious of their modern descendants...
...British companies typically invest $1 on acquisitions abroad for every $3 they spend at home, an astonishing ratio considering that the equivalents for France and Japan, runners-up in the takeover league, are 1 to 16 and 1 to 79 respectively. A survey of cross-border takeovers by KPMG Peat Marwick accountants last year showed that British companies spent four times as much on foreign takeovers as their nearest rivals from France and Japan. Nowhere is this activity more evident than in the U.S. The U.S. Commerce Department puts total direct foreign investment in the U.S. at $390 billion...