Word: mcgraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics and president of Data Resources Inc. (DRI), a prominent economic forecasting firm, announced this weekend that McGraw-Hill Inc. had agreed to buy the company for $103 million...
...McGraw-Hill said they would purchase 45 per cent of DRI stock from Eckstein and other major shareholders at $50 a share, and agreed to offer the same price to stockholders for the rest of the shares during the rest of this month...
...England's next weekend. Then they ride into Princeton, N.J., the following Wednesday to play Jay Lapidus and Co. A Crimson victory would be an upset. But after the 8-1 romp over a Yale group that Princeton beat only 6-3, the Crimson netmen might, like Tug McGraw, be beginning to believe...
...inside with their typewriters and tell tales out of the clubhouse. Jim Bouton perfected the pitch with Ball Four, and as a sequel ex-Yankee Sparky Lyle this season spikes up dirt about the world champs in The Bronx Zoo. Then there's Philadelphia Phillies Reliefer Tug McGraw, 34. When his arm is in the whirlpool, McGraw's mind is busy thinking up baseball fairy tales for children. He is working on one about a boy from the Bowery and his dog who both make it to the majors and another in which balls, bats and gloves come...
...evening to catalogue the bureaucratic monsters they often encountered: "Mr. Kilpatrick recalled the Budgetary Shortfall he had seen along the Potomac. Mr. McCarthy spoke fondly of Leaping Qantums." They roused Political Cartoonist Jeff MacNelly out of bed to portray their creatures, and the result was A Political Bestiary (McGraw-Hill...