Word: swallowings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congratulations to Chairman J. Peter Grace and his task force of corporate executives for pinpointing hundreds of examples of wasteful Government spending [Jan. 23]. Senators and Congressmen who are reluctant to comply with the solutions proposed by the Grace commission should swallow their home-town pride and consider the big picture...
...share bid by Florida-based Investor Victor Posner unless a better offer comes along. Posner, an aggressive and frequently feared accumulator of big blocks of corporate stock, controls more than 26% of Royal Crown's shares. Separately, a Castle & Cooke-led group dropped its efforts to swallow Dr Pepper, another beverage company, which is planning to sell out to Forstmann Little & Co., a private investment firm. Dr Pepper picked Forstmann Little even though its $22-a-share bid was $2 less than the Castle & Cooke group offer. Said Joe Hughes, executive vice president of Dr Pepper: "The Castle & Cooke...
...government agency must now decide whether it can be distributed throughout the Soviet Union and overseas. Yevtushenko insists he will make no cuts. "I won't change anything now," he says. "I will not give in to censorship. If you give one finger to censorship, it will swallow your whole body and spit out bits of your flesh...
Harvard controlled the game's tempo through most of the contest, but midway through the second half it looked like the Crimson was destined to swallow defeat number 17 at the hands of the Lions, who did not start their leading scorer, George Meikle, for disciplinary reasons...
...Sophie, he was highly vulnerable. The route of his procession to the town hall that June 28 was widely known; his open touring car made him an easy mark. Each of the seven assassins stationed along the route carried a pistol, a bomb and a vial of cyanide to swallow if captured...