Word: seven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take a nap, coach. You've got nothing to worry about. The Crimson is undefeated after seven games, the third-ranked team in the nation, and on top of the ECAC standings...
...from now on, a lot of passengers are going to be paying more. Last week, following Continental's lead, major airlines threw out their so-called junk fares, which offered discounts on tickets purchased three to seven days in advance. Since most last-minute flyers are business travelers, few vacationers would be affected. But at the same time, Continental was tinkering with its MaxSaver fares, the popular, deep-discount tickets that must be bought two weeks in advance and require a Saturday-night stay. Starting this week, most MaxSaver fares will increase between $10 and $20 each...
ETTA JAMES: SEVEN YEAR ITCH (Island). Attention: danger of electric shock. High-voltage R. and B. from a woman who has so much funk, soul, sex and humor that, on a tune like Jump into My Fire, you can hear the flames crackle...
...Maxwell snarls with characteristic restraint. Some American publishers insist that he overpaid by as much as $1 billion for Macmillan. Not so, says Maxwell. "Information is growing at 20% a year," he explains in patient, professorial tones. "Communications is where oil was ten years ago. There will be seven to ten great global communications corporations. My ambition is to be one of them. You can't have a world communications enterprise without the U.S., which has 80% of the software and half the scientific information." So exactly how will Macmillan be integrated into his operations? "Synergy," he stonewalls, with...
Johnson, 56, may have grossly miscalculated. When he announced during an Oct. 19 dinner at Atlanta's Waverly hotel that he and seven other managers intended to take the company private in a $17.6 billion leveraged buyout, RJR's board members reacted with shock, one of them now says, "because he was raiding the company from the inside." At first blush, the $75-a-share offer seemed generous, compared with the market price of about $56 at the time. But the directors' shock became outrage when they later learned about the huge piece of the action that Johnson...