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Four plays and one minute later, Rose pump-faked to draw in the Penn secondary and launched a deep bomb for Morris, who made an astounding over-the-shoulder catch and raced into the end zone to complete the 62-yard scoring play...
...announcement. “If you don’t know Billings and Stover,” said the notice, “this will introduce them.” But there was no need to be theatrical for this partnership was as familiar to Harvard students as the pump in the Yard and the new lecture hall across the way. Too familiar, perhaps, for countless men would pull the bell out front to see if there really was a nightman ready to fill prescriptions. The nightman has since left, but little else about the store has changed...
...continue, and the controlling Agnelli family admitted it may need to sell the auto division. The Norse force Norway's largest bank, Den Norske Banke, agreed to buy the country's top insurer, Storebrand, for $1.96 billion in cash and stock. The deal should help fend off foreign predators. Pump up the margins France's Michelin will sever ties with the European arm of General Motors in order to focus on higher-margin markets. GM accounts for about 5% of Michelin's worldwide revenue. INDICATORS Drink that cigarette Californians took smoking out of their bars and restaurants, but now they...
...could say how Steinhauser's expulsion might have turned a calm, reasonable guy into a murderer--or whether some other factor might have been involved. Whatever the reason, Steinhauser showed up late Friday morning armed with a pistol and a pump-action shotgun and began blowing away his victims. Police were on the scene just a few minutes after he began, alerted by a phone call from the school custodian. As they approached the building, Steinhauser leaned out of a window and shot officer Andreas Gorski in the head, killing him instantly. Then the gunman resumed his spree, which ended...
...Aside from the questionable use of the word "artificial" when it comes to companies selling their own products, Levin has a point - corporate names like BP-Amoco, ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil demonstrate well enough the industry's recent wave of consolidation. But as Levin targets the brief but headline-making pump-price spikes of spring 2000 and summer 2001 and calls for antitrust action against the industry, he forgets how the got on this merger kick in the first place: the rock-bottom oil prices of 1999. Disappearing profits induced Exxon and Mobil to join forces in search of a vertically...