Word: reapers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canadian Armed Forces Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Maj. Bill Whitehead told The Associated Press that the rescue operation began when a Canadian fishing vessel, the Atlantic Reaper, radioed yesterday afternoon that it had spotted two large lifeboats...
...shaky financial condition forced it to break that promise. The Chicago-based company decided to sell its agricultural division for $430 million to Houston's Tenneco, an energy conglomerate. This means that Harvester, the descendant of a company founded by Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the mechanical reaper, will abandon its original line of business. The divestiture will let Harvester concentrate on its profitable truck-building operation. Tenneco will merge Harvester's tractor line with its struggling J.I. Case farm-equipment division. By closing plants like Harvester's giant Farmall factory in Rock Island, Ill., Tenneco hopes...
...will recognize the brand of rapid-fire humor that makes this spoof spunky, and Jean's specialty of "over-kill" humor fits perfectly into a film that can show Mission Control deciding that the crew are "goners," and flash to a shot of the cockpit, where the Grim Reaper stands behind the pilot...
...hardly seem surprising. Where his politics had triumphed, the theories had failed him. For Stockman and the integrity of his vision, a binding faith in one meant giving up on the other. The interviews could only be ironic in the context of Stockman's image as the grim reaper of the New Right. Here was the blooming personification of the ruthlessness of the supply-side economics, questioning their fairness to many of the people they affect; the embodiment of the Reagan administration's unbending determination to steer a steady course, speaking out on his own doubts. David Stockman was much...
...famine at International Harvester has come after years of plenty. Founded in 1831 by Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the first mechanical reaper, the company was directed primarily by the McCormick family until 1977. But Chairman Brooks McCormick, Cyrus' great-grandnephew, then admitted that the firm had become "stodgy." Said McCormick two months before his retirement as chief executive officer: "We've been a slumbering giant. We need a shake-up and a darned good...