Word: grabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tide's Out. Axion has jumped into a commanding lead largely by moving into more major cities before Biz. The total market now is $60 million a year and growing so fast that other companies are rushing to grab a share. Lever Brothers, the U.S. arm of Unilever, is test-marketing its enzyme presoak, called Amaze. In addition, detergents containing enzyme additives have been introduced by the three biggest soap companies-Gain and Tide XK by Procter & Gamble, Punch by Colgate and Drive by Lever Brothers. Regular Tide, which has been the No. 1 detergent since its introduction...
Several years ago a lay psychoanalyst who had been studying people in Morelos announced in The Atlantic that all rural people hate the land from which they grab their living. Land is fickle, he said, yielding some years and not others. Why then were the campesinos of Morelos willing to give up their lives to secure tiny fields for their children? I get from Womack's book the same feeling I have gotten from watching campesinos in other parts of Mexico talk about land. It is not something you love or hate, it is a part...
...above-the-market price. For the companies that issue them, debentures offer an even bigger tax break. The interest payments can be deducted from corporate taxable income as a business expense. On the other hand, stock dividends must come from after-tax earnings. Using debentures, conglomerates can often grab control of other companies at little or no real cost to themselves. For example, Victor Posner, Miami conglomerator who has plucked a personal fortune from slums and money-losing corporations, has just captured Sharon Steel (annual sales: $225 million) after a bitter battle. Posner's NVF Co., a Delaware mini-conglomerate...
...nutcracker is equally effective in mob control and dispersal. Holding on to only one stick, the patrolman swings the other like a flail. Any attempt to grab the swirling stick results in a broken limb. A blow on the head can fracture a skull. Says a Detroit police official: "With six men carrying the sticks, we can penetrate 50 men and bust up their formation and come back...
...remained motionless, then he reached up and tried to grab onto something, anything. Nothing held. He felt his foot slipping, desperately reached out with one hand, and found a rock that was secure. He hung onto it, trembling, and saw that he was only 15 feet above the highway. He reached out again. Again, nothing held. Five feet above his outstreched arm, the clay bank stopped and the mountain began. There, five feet away, were bushes that he could hold onto, bushes that would support him. With one foot, he found another solid rock and inched...