Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This fall, equipped with a new protective helmet, Polillo's over-ripe melon has avoided further battering and his statistics have benefitted as a result. Through the first four games Ralph has rushed for a team-leading 175 yards and caugt 7 passes for another 134 yards, to rank second behind backfield mate Paul Connors...
...down Youngstown, Ohio, steel mill. Alperovitz's analysis of the much-ballyhoed "steel crisis" last year shows that corporate greed was the core of the problem, the catalyst for throwing Youngstown out of work. Youngstown Sheet and Tube, locally-owned and highly-profitable in the '60s, was 1969's Ripe Takeover of the Year. Lykes Steamship Company, based in New Orleans and one-seventh the size of Youngstown, borrowed the buy-out capital from Wall Street and elsewhere, using Youngstown's positive cash flow as collateral. Since 1969, Lykes invested next to nothing in modernizing the Youngstown plant--profits went...
...action by card firms is in a long-somnolent field: traveler's checks. American Express has about 65% of the world market, despite recently heating competition. But the check business, argues Visa International President Lee W. Hock, "has changed very little in the past 50 years. It is ripe for innovation...
...group of key delegates felt that, in the wake of the impressive mandate, the convention should continue to meet and press for comprehensive reform of the existing system of student representation while the time was ripe. Another group of active delegates felt the convention had already gone far enough by itself, and should wait to let the duly elected Student Assembly decide the future of student government at Harvard. They were afraid the convention might incense students by appearing to be a body that was out of touch with the rest of the students. The group that wanted to wait...
With a fleet of 55 modern planes, modest debt and a depressed stock price, Miami-based National Airlines, the U.S.'s eleventh largest carrier, has long been ripe for takeover. Even so, the industry was startled in July when it became known that Houston's scrappy little Texas International Airlines had quietly bought more than 9% of National's stock; later it won Civil Aeronautics Board permission to pick up as much as 25%. As one Wall Street analyst put it, Texas International was a "sardine chasing a shark." Last week the swivel chairs in airline board rooms were spinning...