Word: vails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seeming weakness turned out to be a trap. The company's officers even let it be known that Kravis was heading to Vail, Colo., for a skiing weekend and that Roberts was flying back to his home in San Francisco. But Kravis and Roberts stayed in close touch with their team in New York City as it prepared the final attack. When the directors met last week on the 35th floor of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper to open the final bids, they found that Kravis and Roberts had pumped their offer up to $106 a share, while the apparently complacent...
...brothers who filed for personal bankruptcy protection in Dallas last week were no down-and-outers. The long list of possessions mentioned in the filing included Hawaiian real estate, half interest in a Vail, Colo., ski lodge, two Cadillacs, a Mercedes-Benz and a 13,649-piece Byzantine coin collection. But the petitioners, oil heirs Nelson Bunker and Herbert Hunt, realized that their fabled wealth -- still about $1 billion even after many years of financial setbacks -- was in danger of being wiped out by their burgeoning legal problems...
...themselves at the top of the steepest incline they can find and go like a bobsled. Says Scot Breithaupt of Palm Springs, Calif., a former motorcycle racer: "It's a bunch of death-wish riders pointing straight down the hill. It's dynamic!" Equally fearless are those riders near Vail, Colo., who take helicopters to the high country or ride the ski lifts up the mountains and then charge through the backcountry trails. "I got into mountain biking to escape," says Jonathan Nardone, 34, a pinball-machine repairman from West Islip, N.Y., who bikes in New England. "I deal with...
Cincinnati, which races in the Dad Vail League as a heavyweight four, is happy with its victory and feels confident about facing the Radcliffe four at nationals...
Since the death of Mellon Professor K. Onwuka Dike more than five years ago, Harvard has lacked a tenured professor of African studies. Associate Professor of History H. Leroy Vail is the University's only remaining expert on Africa...