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...Macrae's untimely death shook the school," Bussey Professor of Divinity Paul D. Hanson said yesterday. "Anticipation of [Thiemann's] arrival has energized the faculty...
...events that inspired Pennzoil's suit began on Jan. 1, 1984, when Pennzoil's Liedtke and Getty Oil Scion Gordon Getty shook hands on a merger. Pennzoil agreed to pay $5.4 billion, or $110 a share, to buy 43% of Getty. The remaining 57% was to stay in Getty family hands. The two companies announced the merger to the press, signed a memorandum of agreement, even had a champagne toast. But before the paper work was completed, Texaco Chairman John McKinley approached Getty with an offer worth $10.2 billion, or $125 a share, for the entire company...
John and Joe shook their heads emphatically. What Elliott said wasn't true, John said, unless you "use the term girlfriend very loosely...
...visit was hastily planned and largely unwanted. There were no flashy motorcades, no wreath layings and no banquets. Yet from the moment that Polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski shook hands with French President Francois Mitterrand at Paris' Elysee Palace last week, he had achieved what he sought: the stamp of international respectability from a major West European leader. Mitterrand thus became the first Western head of state to receive Jaruzelski since the Polish leader crushed the independent trade union movement, Solidarity, and imposed martial law on the country four years ago this week...
McMahon capitalized on the error with an 11-yd. touchdown run on the first Cabot-North play. Following good blocks by linemen Tom Moffatt and John O'Brien, he ran through the hole and shook off several attempted tackles en route to the endzone...