Word: ralston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Karen, 42, began gambling at age eight, flipping baseball cards against garage doors. At 13, she shot craps with boys in the co-ed locker room of Ralston Junior High in Belmont, Calif. As a young married woman, she started going to Las Vegas and the poker tables at Gardena, Calif. "All of a sudden, it wasn't the money anymore," she says. "It was the action, the high." On one occasion, she told her young son to wait on a street corner after school, and she would pick him up at 2:30 p.m. for a dental appointment...
...Mass., believes the growers' fuss is fruitless. It says there will be no confusion between the two products, since labels will read CRAISIN DRIED CRANBERRIES. Craisins will be sold as a snack and as an ingredient in other foods. They can also be found next month in a new Ralston Purina breakfast cereal. But the real question is, Can they sing...
...Butterfly: 1. Kristen Elias, Penn State, 55.91;2. Anderson, HARVARD, 56.78;3. Sarah Ralston, Penn...
Penn's only freestyle victory came in the 100-yd. event, as Sarah Ralston (53.1) held off Sweetser (54.1) and Jill Hutchinson...
...corporations seeking to repel raiders can use an ESOP as a way to put a chunk of the company into relatively friendly hands. "Every corporate treasurer is looking at it," says Paul Mazzilli, a principal at the Morgan Stanley investment firm. In recent months, three major corporations -- J.C. Penney, Ralston Purina and Texaco -- spent a total of $1.75 billion on ESOPs to shore up their takeover defenses. Procter & Gamble announced plans in January to spend $1 billion to boost its ESOP from 14% of outstanding shares to 20%, partly to ward off raiders...