Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ohio-based Marathon, U.S. Steel's offer amounted to a giant Rolaids tablet spelling relief. For the past three weeks, Marathon has been resisting a takeover bid by Mobil Corp., feeling that Mobil was offering far less for Marathon's shares than they were worth. The firm has run full-page newspaper ads in protest and hauled Mobil into court to block the takeover move. Mobil had bid $85 a share for 40 million shares, 67% of the total, and proposed some other trimmings as well, pushing its offer to $5.1 billion. But that was nowhere near...
...neither Reaganomics nor any plan for restoring business stability can be expected to work like an economic Valium tablet and provide instant relief. "It took us 20 years to get into this mess," says Getty Oil Co. Chairman Sidney Petersen. "We are not going to get out of it in the next 20 months." Adds James Howell, chief economist for the First National Bank of Boston: "Wall Streeters remind me of a mother on her daughter's wedding night. They just need to be a lot calmer, and we'll get through this...
...cryptic tablets tumbled thousands of names, places, deals and directives, accounts of taxes paid, textiles traded and treaties sealed. One tablet listed 70 names of animals; another, 260 ancient cities not yet known to historians. Still another was a breakdown of booty taken in a conquest of neighboring Mari, 240 miles away: the victorious commander got 15%, the rest went to the king of Ebla. Along with some literary documents, Pettinato also discovered a spectacular bonus: bilingual dictionaries, the oldest ever found, matching Eblaite words to Sumerian equivalents -and confirming his readings of the new language...
...metropolis lured traders from Persia, present-day Turkey, Lebanon, Damascus, Sumer and Egypt. Students journeyed from Mari, Kish and Emar to enroll at the academy, then went back home to practice their craft. The prosperity was partly due to Ebla's agricultural acumen. One tablet records the warehousing of 548,500 measures of barley-enough for 18 million meals. Ebla may also have been the first city in the Near East to supplant bartering with use of gold and silver as currency. The complex government was headed by a king, Malik(u), elected peaceably to a seven-year term...
Searle says there is one-tenth of a calorie in the amount of aspartame needed to match the sweetness of a teaspoon of sugar, which has 16 calories. Aspartame will be sold in tablet or granulated form to consumers next year under the brand name "Equal." Under the name "NutraSweet," it will be a food additive used in breakfast cereals, dessert mixes and powdered drinks. Searle plans to seek FDA permission soon to extend its use to carbonated soft drinks...