Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attacker on the horizon. The question was who it would be. For weeks the rumors swirled that someone might launch a takeover raid on American Airlines, the largest and most respected U.S. carrier. In August the board of American's parent company, AMR, bolstered its so-called poison-pill defenses by allowing management greater flexibility to issue new stock in order to make a takeover more expensive. The Fort Worth company also signed up the high-powered Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers to develop a full-defense strategy. AMR even asked the New York Stock Exchange...
This is a bitter pill to swallow for someone like me who grew up with legos, erector sets, tinkertoys and building blocks. These toys represented concrete creativity, encouraging experimentation with different forms and imaginary functions...
...defense, the North Carolina-based pharmaceuticals maker, a subsidiary of Britain's Wellcome P.L.C., cites the high cost of research and development. In an attempt to defuse the cost crisis, the company said last week that it will cut the wholesale price of AZT 20%, to $1.20 a pill. One reason the company is able to do so is that the potential market for the drug has grown substantially in recent weeks with the discovery that AZT can help a far larger group. A Government study released in August concluded that the drug, besides helping people who have AIDS...
Alumni pro-divestment activists cheered when South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu won his bid for a seat on the 30-member Board of Overseers this June, but soon wondered if the election was just the sweet coating to a very bitter pill...
Alumni pro-divestment activists cheered when South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu won his bid for a seat on the 30-member Board of Overseers this June, but soon wondered if the election was just the sweet coating to a very bitter pill...