Word: pros
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Directions to the Pros: See above...
Golf purists sneer at the clunky look and feel of Slotline clubs, but a few pros have become converts. Slotline putters have helped Arnold Palmer and Billy Casper win tournaments on the senior tour, and Kathy Baker used one in her victory at the 1985 U.S. Women's Open. But most of Slotline's customers have much more modest goals. Thom Smith, 42, a tax lawyer in Fairfax, Va., says he chopped his handicap from 19 to 13 after he began playing with a set of Slotline irons. "I don't get to practice much," he says, "so I need...
Virtually no one on Wall Street believes Pickens intends to acquire Seattle-based Boeing (1986 sales: $16.3 billion) and become an aircraft tycoon. Nor is it likely that Pickens would succeed if he tried, since a hostile takeover could cost as much as $13 billion. Some investment pros believe Pickens aims to encourage a takeover bid by a large corporation like cash-rich Ford, which might be seeking high-tech acquisitions. As a major stockholder, Pickens could reap a fortune from any such merger. Alternatively, Pickens' strategy may be to force Boeing management to enhance its share price by launching...
...Schroeder does indeed become the first woman to run for President since Shirley Chisolm's largely symbolic bid in 1972, she will have to offer more than just a ray of hope. Skepticism about her chances runs high among / political pros in Washington, and even some women activists fear that because Schroeder waited so long to get into the race her campaign will be "too little, too late." Republicans take undisguised pleasure in her bid, predicting that, like Jesse Jackson's, it will exacerbate the Balkanization of the Democratic Party. To the seven male Democrats battling for recognition, Schroeder could...
...debate resulting from the failed blockade swirled not around the pros and cons of divestment and not around the legitimacy of what the diplomat had said but on whether the form of protest had been legitimate. SASC itself became the focus of attention, not divestment...