Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shucks, the Games are over [OLYMPICS, Aug. 20]. For two wonderful weeks the world seemed to be a nicer place in which to live...
Your article on Sears [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Aug. 20] was fantastic. The company has earned the trust of my grandfather, my father and me. No matter where I go, I know Sears will always be there and will have what I need...
...stunned to find myself listed as having received $300,000 this year from political action committees (PACs) [NATION, Aug. 20]. When listing the names and campaign receipts of certain candidates for Congress, you mistakenly identified total campaign contributions as PAC money. In fact, PAC contributions in my case have been less than 15% of the total contributions this year, and past campaign experience has placed me among the "little guys" when judging PAC recipients...
...view, escorted by two motorcycle policemen and by lines of yellow-shirted marchers waving small yellow flags. Aboard the truck was a nearly 7-ft.-high, flower-bedecked bronze statue of Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., the Philippine opposition leader slain by an unknown assassin at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, on his return from exile in the U.S. As spotlights played on the figure, the crowd broke into cheers and then into the once outlawed nationalist anthem, Ang Bayan Ko (My Country). A few demonstrators even hugged the motorcycle cops. On such notes of strength and serenity, rather...
DEATH REVEALED. Nina Khrushchev, 84, widow of deposed Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev and one of the few Communist high officials' wives to appear frequently in public or to develop an independent identity; in Moscow on Aug. 8. A schoolteacher who married Khrushchev in 1924, she was his second wife and bore him three children (a son, Sergei, and a daughter, Rada, survive). After her husband's accession to power, she accompanied him on several trips abroad, notably to the U.S. in 1959, where she emerged as warm, witty and charming. After Khrushchev's ouster in 1964, followed...