Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, bourbon, America's beloved corn squeezings, contains female-type sex hormones that may be responsible for the "feminized" appearance-enlarged breasts and beardless faces-of some alcoholic men. The culprit, wrote Judith Gavaler, a Medical Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, may be phytoes- trogen, a female-type hormone found in corn...
...buyouts have become both popular and big. Last year there were 36 of them worth $7 billion, compared with only 16 in 1979. In one of the biggest deals this year, executives of Metromedia borrowed money to buy the company from its shareholders for $1 billion. Senior managers at Pittsburgh-based Ryan Homes are also trying to take their company private by paying shareholders for it. Last week they bid $176 million for the big homebuilder. Other companies have been acquired by one of a number of investment firms, including Forstmann Little and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, that specialize in buyouts...
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...shaggy-dog story is a tale without any real ending, then this is a shaggy-dog story. The dog in question is Nemo, and he belongs to former Pittsburgh Pirates Star Willie Stargell, 43, and his family. When Stargell heard that a dog-food company was running a "Search for the Great American Dog," he figured that had to be Nemo, his 2½ year-old part German shepherd. The celebrated base hitter even submitted an essay of the required 50 words or less on why Nemo should be named Most Valuable Pooch. Wrote Stargell, obviously from the heart...
...from $7.6 billion from First Allied, a group of investors led by Malcolm I. Glazer, to $1 from Tippecanoe Warehousing, a storage and transportation firm that wants to use Conrail in a complex tax deal. Hotelier J.W. Marriott Jr. and Guilford Transportation Industries, owned by Timothy Mellon of the Pittsburgh Mellon family, also made proposals. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole will select the winning bid, possibly later this summer, after discussions with Congress and Goldman, Sachs, DOT'S financial adviser...