Word: ralph
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Follow Up Those Interviews. Everyone likes to shuffle his feet in the Oval Office. Reagan invited a score of Congressmen to visit him there on Monday, and 43 more on Tuesday. Some came alone, others in groups of six or seven. After Democrat Ralph Hall of Texas affirmed his commitment to his party's bill, the President followed their chat with a telephone call to a radio talk show in Hall's district. So many constituents called Hall's office afterward that he begged party leaders to release him from his commitment to the leadership bill. When...
Taking careful note of all the duplication and trend setting, a Major Ralph Rochester of Malt Field, Devon, dispatched a letter to the Times of London. "Sir," he wrote, "I have observed of late numerous girls who are taking pains to look like Lady Diana; but of the boys I have observed, none is making the least effort to look like the Prince of Wales. How should this be?" One reason may be that the Prince steers clear of trends. His suits are made by Johns & Pegg, Ltd., exclusively military tailors until World War II, which made the naval ceremonial...
...weeks ago, Conoco revealed that Du Pont was its choice as a partner. After five days of frantic negotiations capped by a midnight meeting on July 5 between Conoco Chairman Ralph Bailey and Du Pont Chairman Edward Jefferson, the two companies agreed to merge. Jefferson offered $7.3 billion, or an average price of $84.20 per Conoco share. The deal seemed to save Conoco from an unwelcome takeover bid from Canada's Seagram, which had offered $73 per share for about 41% of the oil company's stock. Conoco had also spurned an $85-per-share bid from Texaco...
Corporate clients, who may spend as much as 30% of their after-tax earnings for legal services, have begun to balk at the rising costs and volume (up 7% to 8% annually) of litigation. In May some 70 corporations sent representatives to a Washington conference held by Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader for advice on paring legal fees. Nader's prescriptions: hire in-house legal staffs to handle simple cases and to monitor billing for outside legal work; diversify legal services by hiring a number of firms, including smaller ones; and settle more disputes through mediation or out-of-court...