Word: chase
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Incorporated in July 1979, Citizen's Energy Corporation (CEC) was launched out of Kennedy's basement. Armed with a list of oil ministers' addresses, a letter of credit from Chase Manhattan, very little capital and the Kennedy name, Kennedy and a few friends sent their proposal to the oil producing countries. Most of the ministries did not respond; a few were curious; and then Venezuela said yes. Less than a year later, 8.4 million gallons of CEC-imported heating oil entered Boston harbor...
...winner is the first one to triple the value of his starting capital. Twenty firms, including Aetna Life & Casu alty, Mobil Oil, W. R. Grace, Chase Manhattan and Esmark, paid $30,000 each for the publicity value of having their names appear on the game board...
After a brief surge at the start of the second half which brought Harvard to within two, it became a cat-and-mouse chase game, with New Hampshire always that elusive step ahead...
...left out, Vice President-elect George Bush selected Charles G. (Chase) Untermeyer '68, a Texas state representative and a fellow at the Institute of Politics, as his executive assistant...
...dishes? Of course, say the engineers. Unimation's Engelberger, for that matter, is outfitting his office with a robot that will make and serve coffee to his guests. Fredkin of M.I.T. visualizes the household robot as a creature that could not only do all the chores but also chase away burglars, "preferably by crouching in a dark corner and growling like a large dog." But does the ordinary homeowner want to pay $50,000 to get the kitchen sink cleaned up? "Actually, homes are a complicated environment for robots," says one expert in Washington. "You'd have...