Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sixth-generation member of a family prominent in Paris business, negotiated patiently for eight years to acquire Vichy. A controlling 43.8% interest in Vichy is held by a beer firm called Brasseries et Glacières de 1'Indochine (BGI). Perrier in turn owns 33% of BGI. The swap that Leven finally arranged was to give BGI its 33% and in return take the controlling interest in Vichy. Perrier has acquired another 10% of Vichy shares from other stockholders. Perrier will not only bottle the water from the twelve mineral springs in the town of Vichy but also operate...
...North American men's sailing championships is a test of sailors alone. After summer-long eliminations, eight men are chosen to sail eight races in eight virtually identical boats. After each race, the contestants swap boats to eliminate any possible edge. The victor gets his name engraved on the Clifford D. Mallory Cup-and proud claim to the title of No. 1 U.S. sailor...
...evening when a new young faculty couple stops by for a nightcap. "Give your coats and stuff to sourpuss," snarls Martha, and the foursome is off on an orgy of truth-and-consequences that lasts until dawn. They slosh down a superhuman amount of booze, blurt family secrets, swap partners, claw the flesh away from old, still-festering wounds...
...because of the location the Administration was willing to offer a substantial sum for the land. First, the University offered in the vicinity of $40,000 to $45,000 for the plot; then, in a move to help McNamara avoid paying capital gains taxes on the sale, offered to swap houses. In return for his home, Harvard would provide a house sub-divided into apartments. The apartments would provide annual income, Harvard officials reasoned, and the house's value was comparable to the money offer...
Scrabble & Swap. The hero is James Walker, 32, English novelist, Angry Young Man. Actually he is dim and aging, and resentfully married to a dowdy, motherly, working nurse. Life, as seen from a dull suburb of industrial Nottingham, makes him not angry so much as itching with vague discomfort, as does his hairy tweed suit, which "makes him look as if he had been rolled over by a sheep." He has chronic spiritual snuffles. His novels are about "sensitive provincial types who live far away from where things happen...