Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purposes of investment." The Australian tycoon said he has no intention of mounting a takeover bid for the third-ranking U.S. oil company (1986 revenues: U.S. oil company (1986 revenues: $32.6 billion). But Wall Street experts believe that whatever Holmes a Court is planning, his purchase may have thrown open the bidding on Texaco as the mammoth firm winds its way through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings...
Betsy and the other actors luckily didn't notice my torment or it might have thrown them off, although they showered me with sympathy and apologies after the show. The rest of my death was pretty uneventful. The bleeding soon stopped, and I realized that what in my initial panic I had thought to be a shattered lower jaw was in fact only a superficial scrape. I was kicked once or twice and stepped on, and had my hair pulled three times before the curtain call, but I bore it all with equanimity. The worst was over...
...central organization that could bring folk musicians and audiences together. Now, Maple Hill Inc. of Hillsboro, N.H., is percolating as a record company called Night Light Recordings, a booking agent for new and used talent, a publisher, a producer of special events (with clambakes, boat rides and fireworks thrown in, if that's what you want) and a mail-order house that sends out records and tapes and T shirts...
...something about this Event that eludes rational thought. Only those who were there know what it meant to be there. The others can, at best, come close to the gate. There they must stop. They will never see the fire. They will never witness the sight of children thrown into flames alive. They will never experience the fear of selections for the execution chambers. Knowledge can be shared; experience cannot. Surely not in matters related to Auschwitz...
Surprise: the first name thrown out by the Veecks is Brett Butler, the speedy Cleveland centerfielder. Because the American League has a scarcity of base stealers, speed is a highly prized commodity; Butler, a .278 hitter with little power but who swiped 32 bases, goes for $22. Yankee Slugger Don Mattingly goes for $45; Baltimore Catcher Terry Kennedy for $14. Henderson, year in and year out the Rotisserie League's Mr. Everything, comes up fourth. The bidding is fierce, quickly passing Rickey's previous salary of $53. Given the finite money pool of $3,120, the large number...