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...Sixteen amicus briefs representing 43 organizations including the National Council of Churches and the American Civil Liberties Union were submitted on Moon's behalf during the trial and the subsequent appeals...
...Gambril, a positive thinker. The missing male swimmers probably would not have made much difference, give or take Soviet Distance Man Vladimir Salnikov. The East German women would have changed some results. But it was the 1980 boycott that had the most powerful effect on these '84 Games. Sixteen members of the present team had been set to swim in Moscow, and most of them would not still be around had they done so. Tracy Caulkins was a team star as long ago as the world championships of 1978, when she won five golds; now it was grand...
...investors, who often put up very little of their own cash. In one of the most celebrated leveraged buyouts, former Treasury Secretary William Simon and a group of financiers bought Gibson Greetings in January 1982 for $80 million while putting up only $1 million of their own money. Sixteen months later, Simon's group took Gibson public in a stock offering worth $290 million. Simon's profit on the deal: $66 million. Fortnight ago, Simon's Wesray Corp. launched another buyout: a $71.6 million acquisition of Atlas Van Lines...
...sixteen poets, e.g., Wordsworth, Tennyson...
Competition for the four open spots on the U.S. team should be fierce. The United States Tennis Association (USTA) invited 128 of the nation's top amateurs, and professionals under 21, to participate in a qualifying tournament at Flushing Meadows, N.Y., May 28 to June 2. Sixteen of the 128 players will then square off in a tourney with 16 seeded players...