Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Darling and Impagliazzo are this awesome the rest of the way, forget it. The former drew a dozen scouts to Cambridge, most equipped with speed guns that timed the junior's fastball consistently in the high 80s and once or twice in the 90s. What impressed them most was that this is how Darling looked with a 14-run lead, not exactly pressure conditions. He blew down the Crimson like candles on a birthday cake, fanning eight, allowing just two singles until he lost his concentration in the seventh. "Easily the best we've seen," said Martelli...
...English major at Harvard ('40) and avid golfer (he shoots in the low 90s), Regan learned his hard-driving management style as a Marine lieutenant colonel during combat in the Pacific. Says Regan, whose Irish temper flares quickly at subordinates who do not meet his expectations: "I don't like laziness or sloppiness or slovenliness." After World War II, he joined Merrill Lynch, became its president in 1968 and chairman in 1971. Under his leadership, the firm, already biggest in the U.S. securities industry, became a financial supermarket with thriving new lines of business in insurance, real estate...
...everyone weigh his answers more carefully the second time around. Using Delphi, Next polled 32 Government and nongovernmental experts and came up with a very readable piece on the possibility of nuclear war. The consensus: chances are low over the next four years but may double by the '90s. The most optimistic finding is that a global nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is least likely; more probable is a regional war that does not spread. Most probable: a nuclear Israel-Arab war, with Israel ruined but prevailing, and an India-Pakistan war with India winning...
Horner dubbed the freshmen "George Orwell's class and called on them "to help shape Orwell's 1984, the '90s, the 21st century and Radcliffe's second century...
...Morgan is a convicted kidnaper with little hope of leaving the maximum security prison at Stillwater, Minn., until the mid-'90s. During the early years of his sentence, he whiled away the days shuffling papers in an office and worrying about the financial plight of his disabled wife. Nowadays Morgan (not his real name) serves his time much more productively. Thanks to a 40-hour-a-week job as a computer programmer with a company set up inside prison walls, he has been able to buy a $50,000 house for his wife, and he sends home enough money...