Word: wrestliing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quietly turns her assets over to the Wall Street take-over firm Kohlberg, Kravis & Roberts (KKR). The elite company begins a hostile takeover of the Sox, attempting to wrest control of the team from Jean Yawkey and Haywood Sullivan. Adams is joined in her efforts by Donald Trump and Bob Guccione...
...takeover, and even tried unsuccessfully to replace Texaco's directors in an old-fashion proxy fight late last spring. Finally, after 14 hours of peace talks, Icahn agreed last week to sign a standstill agreement that prevents him from buying any more stock in the company or trying to wrest control for another seven years...
Whatever the prospective economic gains, many Canadians fear the elimination of tariff and trade barriers with the U.S. will mean a far more portentous loss -- namely, national sovereignty. Canadians have long been worried that free trade would mean a kind of integration with America's economy that would wrest self-determination from Canadian industry. As far back as 1911, the government of Liberal Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier fell over a free-trade agreement -- an episode that gave birth to the slogan "No truck nor trade with the Yankees...
Along with 6000 Red Guard members, Xuelianglater helped to wrest the city of Ching Yang fromthe control of almost 100,000 peasants. TheGuard's three-day fast in that cold March promptedthe central government to force local authoritiesto appease the students and expel peasants fromthe city...
Adapting to the change in fortune, Polaroid announced last week that it plans to add regular film to its continuing line of instant-camera products. The company, based in Cambridge, Mass., hopes to wrest a fraction of the $7 billion-a-year world market for conventional film from industry leaders Eastman Kodak, which controls 60% of sales, and Fuji Photo Film, with 25%. One giant plus on Polaroid's side is its brand-name recognition. In just two years of testing in Spain and Portugal, Polaroid-labeled 35-mm, 110-mm and 126-mm film captured about...