Word: weaverization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specific game situation will dictateHarvard's style of play. The Crimson will notalways go for the three-run homer, nor will italways look to scrounge for each run. Nahigian, inhis 11th season as the Crimson's coach, is nottaking any leads from Earl Weaver or WhiteyHerzog...
...novel, Foucault's Pendulum, which has sold more than half a million copies in Italy since it was published last October and at one point outsold the next highest best seller by 15 to 1. Translation rights have been assigned in 24 countries, and an English version by William Weaver will be published in the U.S. next October. Once again the Italian press has orchestrated what it calls Ecomania with cries of delight and outrage. One newspaper praised Foucault's Pendulum as "the novel of the '90s," while the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano denounced it for "vulgarities...
Actress Sigourney Weaver claimed a rare Oscar double nomination for best actress for Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey and best supporting actress for Working Girl...
...Joining Weaver in the best actress competition were Glenn Close for Dangerous Liaisons, Jodie Foster for The Accused, Meryl Streep for A Cry in the Dark and, in her first Oscar nomination, Melanie Griffith for Working Girl...
...lockup arrangement in which the Nebraska firm can buy some of Holly Farms' operations if the marauding Tyson succeeds in taking over. ConAgra, which already controls 20% of the U.S. beef industry, 33% of the lamb market and nearly 10% of broiler production, would like to bring Holly Farms' Weaver frozen-chicken label into the same shed with its Armour, Banquet and Country Pride brands. Tyson is now suing both companies in an attempt to overturn the lockup deal. Both Tyson and ConAgra are hungry for a bigger helping of the sizzling $7 billion U.S. chicken market. Largely because...