Word: suede
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In May 1978, Takuye Green, 54, was facing a coronary bypass operation at Lutheran Hospital of Milwaukee. Her husband Hoyle remembers being reassured when they were told that a top visiting Air Force officer, Dr. William Stanford, would be assisting. Stanford was responsible for hooking her up to a heart...
The Victorian age produced sexual cripples in quantity; it is no surprise that Ruskin was one of them. He never matured emotionally, and he could respond romantically to women only when they were safely unavailable because of physical absence, extreme youth, or, in a couple of cases, death. He fell...
The biggest setback of all came at the hands of the Federal Trade Commission, which has become generally more promerger since the beginning of the Reagan Administration. The FTC sued Mobil for violation of antitrust laws in order to block the takeover bid. The FTC has left a loophole, though...
Inevitably, the popularity of Rubik's Cube has encouraged rip-offs as well as spinoffs. Counterfeit versions are available on street corners in some American cities for far less than the normal $5 to $10 price. Ideal Toy Corp., which holds the U.S. distribution rights of Rubik's...
At a frenzied series of weekend meetings, these hired guns huddled with Marathon's board of directors. Wasserstein and Perella told them that Mobil's offer of $85 a share was "grossly inadequate." Flom advised the directors that the offer raised serious antitrust questions. As a result, Marathon...