Word: salvos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radicals' salvo may even have worked to the President's advantage, lending a certain immediacy to his call for a tough declaration against terrorism. During dinner with his fellow leaders on the first night of the summit, Reagan distributed a rambling ten-page position paper that Shultz, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan and National Security Adviser John Poindexter had hurriedly drafted during the Air Force One flight. Thatcher, much to everyone's surprise, then pulled out a two-page proposal of her own. It included a checklist of direct measures that the allies could undertake...
Last week, in a corporate-style engagement, Coca-Cola agreed to buy Dr Pepper (1985 profits: $60.6 million) from Forstmann Little, a New York-based investment banking firm, for $470 million. The deal is a retaliatory salvo in an ongoing soft- drink war. Only five weeks ago, PepsiCo announced that it was buying Seven-Up for $380 million. That takeover will give Pepsi about 34% of the $30 billion soft-drink market. By acquiring Dr Pepper, Coke will increase its industry-leading share...
...recent salvo was fired by Mr. Evan O. Grossman '87 in his 25 November opinion piece, "Think Hard...
...Government last week fired a second salvo at General Dynamics (1984 sales: $7.8 billion), the maker of the Trident nuclear submarine and the F-16 fighter aircraft. The Navy announced that as a result of the conspiracy charges, the company will be temporarily suspended from obtaining new federal defense contracts, which generate more than 75% of General Dynamics' total revenues...
Adelphi shot a salvo of three goals into the Crimson net in the first 2:10 of the second. Chris Pujols strove to but the tide with a goal, but to no avail...