Word: thayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wide-ranging as prescription drugs and sporting goods drove it to the edge of bankruptcy. The company's turn-around to financial health began after it sold off several of its acquisitions and concentrated on the manufacture of steel and a few other basic products. Recalls Paul Thayer, who is now LTV's chairman: "We had been a conglomerate mess to say the least. We had no corporate understanding of the businesses we were...
Initial results from work done at Leverett House and Thayer Hall make Leahy and Lichten hopeful of substantial savings across the University. In the Leverett Towers, where the target was a wasteful ventilation system, fuel consumption was cut 17 per cent for the year, Lichten says. Thayer, he adds, recorded a 24-per-cent reduction in fuel use after the installation of better insulation and adjustable valves with thermostats on all of the dorm's radiators. The valves have also all but ended the problem of erratic heating in rooms, Leahy adds, saying he's seen the proof from...
Finn responded a minute later with the first of her goals, on an unassisted field-length breakaway. But Harvard couldn't keep up any kind of sustained attack and allowed UMass to take the lead again on a Margie Anderson shot off a pretty pass from Thayer over the heads of the Crimson defenders...
...second half Finn and UMass's Thayer traded goals in the early going, but the rest of the period slowed down and the game became a tough defensive battle...
...Chiefs, Bradley later joined the Bulova Watch Co. and served as its chairman from 1958 until stepping down in 1973. The old soldier spent his last four years at Fort Bliss in Texas, where he sometimes lectured on leadership. In accepting West Point's highest honor, the Sylvanus Thayer Award, in 1973, Bradley reflected on the low prestige of the military after the Viet Nam War. "The profession of arms is often a lonely profession. It is misunderstood by many. My wife has called me a warrior who hates war. I am sure that is true...