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...billion to finance the purchase, which would more than double its debt load, and some observers think that Conoco might be too much to digest. Du Pont has a reputation for being a tightly run company that frequently shifts managers between product lines to give them broader experience. Asserts Thorn Brown, an analyst with the investment firm of Butcher & Singer: "There's no easy way to integrate Conoco into the Du Pont operation...
...trust her with her light skin. They see the traces, the Africa in her face, but they don't believe that she does since "Yallas don't come to being black natural-like. They have to choose it and most don't choose it." She is a vicious thorn piercing Black men's imaginations, a "tar baby side-of-the-road whore trap...
...undisputed guru of the militant left is M.P. Tony Benn. A constant thorn in the side of Labor's parliamentary party, which comprises the elected M.P.s, Benn has held several Cabinet posts in Labor governments since he was first elected to the House of Commons in 1950. A handsome aristocrat who attributes many of his political ideas to the Bible, Benn became a favorite, if unanointed leader of the extreme left for renouncing his peerage...
Shigehisa Kuriyama and Barbara Louis Thorn received honorable mentions for their entries this year...
When Walesa returned to Gdansk to report to Solidarity's national commission during its two-day meeting, his account of the Warsaw talks was cautiously pessimistic. "They are trying to dismantle us quietly," he said. "We must realize that Solidarity is a thorn in the government's side." The Solidarity delegates, in accordance with the summer agreements, proclaimed their call for a five-day work week and warned against any attempt to compensate by wage reductions or loss of other holidays. The resolution did leave the government an out, however, by declaring that the union leadership would listen...