Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sooner had Standard Oil of California agreed to buy Gulf Oil than Wall Streeters began speculating on who would win, and who would lose, in the $13.2 billion deal. At the top of everyone's winners list was Corporate Raider T. Boone Pickens Jr. and his partners. Together with Pickens' Texas-based Mesa Petroleum, they acquired 13.2% of Gulf stock at an average price of $45 a share, and now stand to reap $760 million from Socal's takeover for $80 a share. Mesa alone will rake in $506 million...
...People, patients and the general public are going to be very angry," he says of his book. Predicting that psychiatrists will reject his criticisms, he adds. "And sooner or later this total silence on the part of analysis is going to backfire...
...next result of the Assad-Gemayel talks will be the attempted resuscitation of the moribund Geneva negotiations among all Lebanese factions over the formation of a government of national unity. A spokesman for Gemayel predicted that the conference would begin by the end of this week, "if not sooner." Opposition Leaders Jumblatt and Berri would most likely be invited to join the new government, which Syria has promised to help by extending its rule to parts of Lebanon currently outside Gemayel's control...
This creates an exceedingly dangerous situation. An alliance cannot live by arms alone. To endure it requires some basic agreement on political aims that justify and give direction to the common defense. If military arrangements provide its only bond, it will sooner or later stagnate. It will surely prove unable to take advantage of diplomatic opportunities for an easing of tensions. That is the central issue before the Atlantic Alliance today. It requires a remedy that is fundamental, even radical?in the literal sense of going to the root...
...sooner had Andropov been buried near the Kremlin wall last week than rumors began to circulate that Chernenko was not in the best of health. It was widely noted that he had disappeared for two months last spring, reportedly because of illness. As the new Soviet leader read a eulogy for Andropov from atop the Lenin Mausoleum, he spoke in short, icy gasps...