Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down Tuesday with Stanford. The Crimson and the Cardinal were supposed to meet last year for the Briggs Dedication game, but construction delays forced the postponement of the inaugural ceremonies. The teams agreed to switch the sites of the home-and-home series setting up this year's dedication shootout...
...TEXAS SHOOTOUT. Three-alarm chili and the gubernatorial race between Texas Republican Incumbent William Clements, 65, and State Attorney General Mark White, 42, have a lot in common. This heated contest is a referendum not on Ronald Reagan but on Bill Clements, whose blunt language and pro-business positions have antagonized many low-income voters. White, the underfunded underdog, began to edge up after three televised debates gave him an opportunity to put Clements on the defensive. White has attacked Clements' mudslinging leak of a driving-under-the-influence charge when White was a law student, and accused...
While firms like IBM, Apple and Xerox are strong in the field of personal computers for the office, they have stood clear of the Shootout for the home market. The key players...
Bendix, a diversified manufacturer of auto and aerospace parts, machine tools and other industrial products, started the Shootout three weeks ago by making an offer of about $1.5 billion to buy Martin Marietta, an aerospace firm that also makes chemicals and building materials. Martin Marietta not only rejected the offer, but quickly responded with a counterbid to buy Bendix for some $1.5 billion. At about the same time, Martin Marietta began secret negotiations with United Technologies, which had been rumored to be interested in acquiring Bendix...
...trapper. Then, on Monday morning, in a Dallas suburb, Truck Driver John Parrish, 46, after an argument with employers over $1,600 in wages, went on a rampage, fatally shooting six people and wounding four others at three places where he had worked. He was finally killed in a Shootout with police. A day later, Junett Bryant found her son Ricky Lee, 31, dead on the bedroom floor of his cottage near Fort Worth, stabbed, castrated and decapitated. Four more victims were next door. Larry Keith Robison, 25, who had been staying with Bryant while looking...