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...Crimson will be the underdog Sunday for the first time since...
...came out the winner? As Washington tries to rally international support for its accusation that Muammar Gaddafi is building a chemical- weapons plant, the incident helps the erratic leader play the underdog. -- The prosecution drops its two biggest charges against Oliver North. -- Washington' s Mayor Marion Barry has some serious problems. So does his city...
...stunning rebuff to Johnson, the board awarded the food-and-tobacco giant to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the leveraged-buyout specialists. Underdog KKR won even though the firm's final bid of about $25 billion in cash and securities, or $109 a share, was a bit less than the $25.4 billion, or $112 a share, that Johnson and his handful of top RJR managers had offered as their last stab. (The largest previous deal was Chevron's $13.3 billion takeover of Gulf in 1984.) "It was destined to happen this way," said a source close to the bidding. "The board could...
...Bush embraced were both negative and irrelevant to the White House; it would be a bizarre ritual, to say the least, if a President Bush solemnly recited the Pledge of Allegiance each time he stepped into the Oval Office. Dukakis' presidential agenda was almost as shadowy. Even as an underdog presumably liberated from crass campaign calculus, he chose sound-bite slogans over a last chance to talk sense to the American people...
...vice president confidently said the nation was "coming in behind my candidacy" while his underdog rival vowed he would spring a stunning "November surprise...