Word: tenderize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public sale of about 2 million Avis shares (25% of the total), which have a current market price of about $15 a share. He had already disclosed that he would use all of the 3.7 million shares he controlled to support amendments to the company charter that make tender offers all but impossible. One proposal would allow anyone holding more than 20% of Avis stock to veto a takeover. Even after the sale of the 2 million shares, Smith will hold 22% of the stock...
...first day a U.S. spokesman noncommittally described the talks as "businesslike." Next day they were "intensive." By the third day they were "worthwhile." In the artfully nuanced language of diplomacy, that signals progress. Indeed, a tender springtime bloom seemed to have returned to U.S.-Soviet relations as Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko huddled last week in Geneva. Their meeting spanned a diplomatic climate more congenial to detente than the chill that had engulfed Vance's abortive mission to Moscow at the end of March...
...think I've changed. I still have the same values and interests." Rising by 10 a.m., he typically breakfasts on a quart of juice, a vegetable omelet and rice. On game days, he arrives at the Memorial Coliseum ahead of his teammates for treatment of his bum ankles, tender knees and other ailments, practices with the team, and then returns home to walk or play soccer in a neighborhood park. A nap follows, and then he sits in a rocker sandwiched between speakers blaring the hard rock music of the Grateful Dead, absorbing the music and psyching himself...
...bluesy Southern rock lives on with Betts & Co. Betts, whose song writing and soaring guitar solos helped gun the Allman band's engine, keeps his foot to the floor with his new group's debut album. The music moves from hard shakers like Run Gypsy Run to tender love songs like Bougainvillea...
...kept that promise you made to your tearful waving-goodbye mother during that light-years-ago Freshman Week and you still tender your devotions regularly at Memorial Church on Sundays. If so, you will be familiar with the melodious handiwork of Lenora McCroskey, Assistant Organist and Choir Master there. She (not the cat's mother but McCroskey) will give a harpsichord recital in that be-steepled Greek temple opposite Widener that you might be going to 8:45 morning prayers at. Admission is free and the show sould be well worth listening...