Word: rorer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think any of us have ever been so happy, not even when we won in San Diego," stroke Jillian Buriak said. "Katia [coxswain Rorer] was saying that we should just try to have a good race for ourselves, but when we were up on them after the first ten strokes, there was no way we were going...
...high point of the race was moving on Columbia in the first 500 meters," coxswain Katia Rorer said. "We were taking almost a seat a stroke on them...
...claims from women who say they were injured by Robins' Dalkon Shield, a small plastic intrauterine birth-control device. Yet in the past few weeks suitors lined up as if Robins had discovered a cure for cancer. Two U.S. drug companies (Manhattan-based American Home Products and the Rorer Group of suburban Philadelphia) and one foreign pharmaceutical and cosmetics house (Sanofi of Paris) made offers for Robins. As the bids proliferated, a federal bankruptcy judge gave Robins a Jan. 6 deadline to pick a suitor and file a reorganization plan...
...flurry of takeover bids. Right through New Year's Day, the contestants kept raising the ante. American Home Products, the maker of Anacin headache tablets, reportedly offered $3.08 billion, as Sanofi did. But A.H.P. wanted all of Robins, while Sanofi was content with 58%. The last announced bid from Rorer, the manufacturer of Maalox antacid, was valued at $2.98 billion...
...really good race for us," JV coxswain Katia Rorer said. "The people in the boat said they rowed better than they ever rowed before in that race. We moved all through the race, moved through each segment, and got more out of each 500 [meters]. Everything about our race plan worked...