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...have been quenching Russian thirst since the Nixon years, contended that Reagan's on-and-off "light-switch commercial policy" branded the U.S. an unreliable supplier. Still, 15 more plants to bottle Pepsi will be uncapped soon. General Electric and Dresser Industries, two companies that would have been stung badly if the pipeline sanctions had gone on, now will be able to deliver their goods...
...boardroom saga began last month with a bid of some $1.5 billion by Bendix's ambitious chairman, William Agee, 44, to buy Martin Marietta and thereby acquire that firm's prestigious and profitable defense business. Stung by Agee's move, Marietta President Thomas Pownall, 60, launched a counteroffer of about $1.5 billion to buy Bendix instead. In addition, he persuaded United Technologies' chairman, Harry Gray, 62, who over the years had built his company into a $14 billion conglomerate with a string of successful takeover raids, to make a parallel bid for Bendix...
...Stung by the Crimson tally, Columbia responded like a swarm of been for the rest of the match, putting unrelenting pressure on the Harvard goal mouth as the difference in skill became apparent and the booters made fewer forays into the Lion's half...
Nobody believes that the Soviets have been fundamentally humbled or have changed their intentions. The balance of nuclear terror is still tipping their way. But the lesson from the Lebanon experience, that technology can compensate for the huge Soviet numerical abundance in weapons and men, has stung. More important, perhaps, in the great power game is the shot in the arm that both the Lebanon and the Falklands experiences have given the West. British infantry showed that allied forces are not the reluctant dragons so often depicted...
...Stung by the public outcry, the government moved with uncharacteristic swiftness. Two days after the memorial service, President Sandro Pertini signed a decree that invested sweeping investigative powers in the newly created post of high commissioner against organized crime. By midweek the Parliament had passed a set of anti-Mafia laws that Dalla Chiesa had pleaded for, without success, prior to his death...