Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political fight promptly turned mean. First Hart gloated, but after he was booed by an audience of Democratic regulars in Boston, he tried to be a graceful winner-at least on network TV and in interviews with national journalists. "Walter Mondale and I share a deep and abiding commitment to the values of the Democratic Party," he said, looking relaxed. "Our values are very similar, and that's why we're both Democrats." Mondale, however, would not play along. "For a Democrat," Mondale said, Hart's "concern expressed for people who are suffering the most is pretty...
...they were playing, each had to assemble his best hand by 9 o'clock Monday morning, then make one bet without seeing the chips of the others. The jackpot: Gulf Oil, the fifth-largest U.S. petroleum company and one of the ten biggest corporations. After seven hours the winner was announced: Standard Oil of California, best known for its Chevron gas stations, whose cash bid of $80 a share, or $13.2 billion, became the most ever paid for one American corporation by another. Said Socal Chairman George Keller, 60, after it was over: "It's more than...
...awards are reversed on appeal, cases sometimes cost more than $1 million to defend. Indeed, journalists contend that many libel cases are filed in part to harass the press, and some publishers have urged adoption of Britain's system of making the loser in a suit pay the winner's legal fees...
...year-old N.F.L. has been losing some rather choice material to the two-year-old spring league-from eminent Underclassmen Herschel Walker (newly renegotiated New Jersey Generals contract: $6 million for four years) and Marcus Dupree (New Orleans Breakers, $6 million for five years) to 1983 Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier (Pittsburgh Maulers, $3 million for three years) and Young, whose playing obligation is four years. A 6-ft. 1-in. lefthander, he passed for an average of 395 yds. per game last season. Cincinnati Bengals Assistant General Manager Mike Brown, who intended to choose Young first...
Kentucky will meet the winner of the Alabama-Birmingham-Brigham Young game in the Mideast, and DePaul, hoping to give retiring Conch Ray Meyer his first nation championship, will go against the winner of Alabama and Illinois State in the Midwest...