Word: swap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industry and highway safety. Many feel a little resentful about this part of the event--they don't want a good driving score pulled down because they don't know the intricacies of Department of Transportation regulations. Meanwhile, judges and officials confer on rules and procedures, drink coffee and swap stories. It may rain...
...combine would be within striking distance of the leading chain, the Chicago Tribune group; its seven papers, which include the Tribune and the New York Daily News, have a daily readership of 3,549,000. The proposed deal is essentially an acquisition: Knight will swap stock worth some $158 million for 77,100 Ridder shares and dominate the enlarged chain's board of directors. Knight has been expanding steadily since the late Charles L. Knight, a former editor of the Woman's Home Companion, bought the Akron Beacon Journal in 1906. Under Knight's sons, John...
...finding trade offices and homes for businessmen. Soviet-American trade has already risen dramatically (from $200 million in 1971 to $1.4 billion in 1973), and only last week, coincident with the summit, the Occidental Petroleum Corp. signed a series of 20-year contracts with the Soviets for a giant swap of chemicals. Though money would not change hands, the value of the barter deal at current prices would be about $20 billion...
...drama records the 20th reunion of the 1954 Pennsylvania State High School Basketball Champions. Four of the players gather in their coach's living room to relive the glory of their come-from-behind win, to drink a few beers, to swap locker room jokes. The high school heroes, grown men now, still refer to their host as "Coach" with the kind of nameless deference that is usually reserved for a parent. They look at him as the symbol of old times, as an exemplar of moral and physical strength...
...have a message for George Meany. We have a message for Leonard Woodcock. We have a message for Frank Fitzsimmons. You can tell them we didn 't come here to swap recipes...