Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Express magazine, formally offered more than $800 million for up to 70% of Crown Zellerbach, a forest products company that has been fighting off the interloper since December. The day after the Goldsmith proposal, Icahn said he would pay $305 million for 51% of Uni-royal, a tire and chemical manufacturer, which immediately spurned the deal. The moves were only the latest in an increasingly frenzied round of takeover brawls and mergers. Last month Capital Cities Communications agreed to pay $3.5 billion for the American Broadcasting Cos. in what was then the largest U.S. merger outside the oil industry. That...
QUOTE: "Kill ten of our men and we will kill one of yours. In the end, it is you who will tire...
...with smoking. In fact, in most ads it has nothing to do with smoking, because in several of those Salem ads no one has a cigarette in his hand at all. But Salem Spirit has a lot to do with sexy, happy Yuppies eating watermelon and plunging off tire swings into warm rivers...
...excess flab--"even 5 lbs.," he says--can be dangerous, particularly to people already at risk for hypertension and diabetes. Oddly enough, the distribution of fat on the body seems to influence health. Studies have shown that people who carry their excess fat as a potbelly or "spare tire" are more apt to suffer from heart disease, stroke and diabetes than those who carry the same amount of flab around their hips and thighs. Why this is so remains a mystery...
...right," he said at last. "You may start the exam." The four roommates turned over the pages. Each one bore the same two words: "WHICH TIRE...