Word: wilmington
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people buying water and cannedgoods like pork and beans. It's been prettysteady," said Bryan Raleigh, manager of the MarketStreet Food Lion in Wilmington, N.C., where nearbyCarolina Beach suffered $90 million in damageswhen hit by Hurricane Diana...
...around 15 classmates chosen to work for Esso, as Exxon was then called. As a third mate, he earned $24,000, extraordinary pay for a young man starting out in 1968. Hazelwood, who by then preferred to be called Joe, reported for duty on the Esso Florence in Wilmington, N.C. His seafaring instincts made an instant impression. "Joe had what we old-timers refer to as a seaman's eye," recalls Steve Brelsford, a retired Exxon captain and Hazelwood's first boss. "He had that sixth sense about seafaring that enables you to smell a storm on the horizon...
...hours last Friday morning, more than 40 lawyers, reporters and Wall Street speculators camped outside a quiet office in the Delaware Court of Chancery in Wilmington. They were anxiously awaiting the outcome of one of the most intensely watched corporate takeover fights in the 197-year history of the court. When clerks appeared at 10:30 with copies of Chancellor William Allen's 79-page ruling, the aggressive crowd tore the documents from the court officials' hands. Dialing their offices, moneymen shouted into their cellular phones, "The Time-Warner merger...
...Alcar Group, a management-consulting firm that champions shareholder value: "What Time must now do is not celebrate the decision, but convince the marketplace that the new company can still deliver." For now, however, Time must keep one eye on the marketplace and the other on a courtroom in Wilmington, where its freedom to purchase Warner will finally be decided...
...some French fries and a dish of maple-walnut ice cream. That was what one had been doing on the superhighway to Washington ever since it was built back at the dawn of the Republic. But when that familiar orange roof loomed up out of the rain near Wilmington, Del., it turned out that the orange roof covered only a Howard Johnson motor lodge and the adjoining restaurant called itself Bob's Big Boy. It would be uncharitable to criticize a Big Boy restaurant for not being a Howard Johnson's, but when one has been looking forward...