Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some McGraw-Hill employees fear that a takeover would cramp their editorial independence, though it is hard to see how Amexco would be different from any management, including the present one. In any case, those fears have an ironic ring. In a mostly laudatory cover story on Robinson and American Express ("a cash machine"), Business Week advised in its Dec. 19, 1977, issue that Amexco's "best response" to new competition would be "to look for additional products for its affluent market, or to find other businesses that fit [its] specialized mold." Little did the staff guess that their...
...Boxing is the granddaddy of one-on-one sports," he said, and he went on to discourse on what makes a good fighter. "The best fighters are the best liars. Every boxer is scared in the ring, but the one who doesn't show it usually wins...
...later tearfully told Little Bruce that she did not clearly remember what had happened but she had passed out and awakened in the morning stripped of her clothes. Angry, Little Bruce decided to get even. On Aug. 9, he told a federal grand jury in Philadelphia about the theft ring allegedly headed by his father...
...venture was such a success that Carlsberg opened posher Stallion Springs Horse Ranch in semiarid land north of Los Angeles. Campers at Stallion are less interested in roughing it than riding it, drawn by the park's boarding stables, corrals and an equestrian show ring that seats 600. Though he also runs a profitable real estate and construction company, Carlsberg is concerned, he says, about "retaining land as much as possible in its natural beauty...
...When we lose a game, nobody's madder at me than me," he said five years ago. "When I look into the mirror in the morning, I want to take a swing at me." Literally. After losing to Iowa in 1963, Hayes slashed his face with a large ring on his left hand. Pacing the sidelines, he sometimes bit into the fleshy heel of his hand until it bled. Even a heart attack in 1974 did not make Hayes ease...