Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instant success. Their prices were so low that shoppers expected them to go out of business, a rumor they gleefully perpetuated by keeping their front windows coated with whitewash. Carrefour launched dozens of outlets, as did copycats. Today France has more than 600 hypermarkets that together account for some 14% of the < country's retail trade. Carrefour, which now operates hypermarkets in Spain, Brazil and Argentina, plans to open its first U.S. outlet this week, in suburban Philadelphia. Among the store's innovations: a rubbery floor surface to ease the punishment on shoppers' feet...
...team and put his encyclopedic knowledge of the sport to use in representing then Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. In 1979 Reichler's firm picked him to help recover Nicaraguan assets pilfered by the Somoza dictatorship. Two years later, when Arnold & Porter grew disenchanted with the Sandinistas, Reichler took the Nicaraguan account to another firm. But after that firm declined to press a Nicaraguan case against the U.S. in the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Reichler struck out on his own. He prosecuted the case successfully, convincing the World Court that the U.S. was attempting to overthrow the Sandinista government...
...hoping to fulfill a career-long dream of seeing his books at airport newsstands, Stephen is putting the finishing touches on A Brief History of Time (Bantam), a popular nonmathematical account that will be published in April. "Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales," says Hawking. "In the end, however, I did put in Einstein's famous equation E = m c squared. I hope that this will not scare off half my potential readers...
...following July, Bush and his chief of staff, Craig Fuller, met in Jerusalem with Amiram Nir, an adviser to then Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Nir was helping to arrange the arms sales to Iran. According to Fuller's detailed account of the meeting, Nir told Bush the deal was an arms-for-hostages swap, and that he was negotiating with the most "radical elements" in Iran, not with moderates. Bush told Rather he believed Nir was talking about an Israeli operation. But Fuller's summary says Nir specifically told Bush how the Israelis had taken pains to mask U.S. involvement...
...that Mylroie's research is significant because it refutes arguments which contend that American attitudes toward the Arab-Israeli crisis cycle through four-year periods corresponding to American presidential administrations. Mylroie has found that the U.S. alternates between an extremely pro-Israeli position and a stance which takes into account the demands of Arab countries and Israel alike. "She offers a more complex and more convincing pattern," Pipes says...