Word: rounder
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...Maher and Bott will be hard-pressed to match their predecessors' style or accomplishments. In boardrooms from Pittsburgh to Palm Beach, the two men seemed an unlikely pair. Perella, a lanky 6 ft. 6 in., with an affable demeanor, towers over the rounder, more combative Wasserstein. But since the duo began building First Boston's mergers department in the mid-1970s, they have brought their firm into some of the most famous and infamous deals of the decade. In one case, the team was all too effective in helping Texaco beat rival Pennzoil in a battle to acquire Getty...
Studying the humanities and social sciences "is not simply desirable because it makes a rounder person, but because it's necessary to bringing a broader perspective to an engineer in his or her work," he said...
...days before WrestleMania, Hogan was demonstrating a front chin-lock on Belzer, who went limp and fell unconscious to the floor. When he rose, a pool of blood had formed under his head; the comic required eight stitches. John Stossel, a reporter for the ABC newsmagazine 20/20, got a rounder basting when he told David ("Dr. D") Schultz, "You know, I think this is fake." His integrity impugned, the humongous Dr. D viciously swatted Stossel twice to the ground. Belzer is considering a lawsuit; Stossel is planning one. Both cases raise the ominous possibility that some wrestlers take the game...
...oval shape that buyers seemed to find more comfortable to use than the rounder form of the Cricket. Such preferences helped boost the Bic model last year to an estimated 53% share of the $325 million U.S. market for disposable lighters, vs. Cricket's 16%. Gillette was third in the race behind Scripto, which accounted for 24% of 1983 sales...
...records. Advice for beginning bands was abundant, but often contradictory. The major record labels emphasized management. Unmanaged bands rarely get a hearing from the big companies, although Steve Leeds of MCA insisted that every tape that comes in gets listened to by somebody. The independent labels, with JEM and Rounder records, warned against jumping into a relationship with a manager before a band knows its needs and style A friend or fellow musician will get lost in the business of bookings and contracts...