Word: baron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waffling over whether he should quit did her no good. Labor rose from its electoral ashes to choose bright, eloquent Welshman Neil Kinnock, 41, as its new leader. From Thatcher's Tory ranks came broadsides ripping her economic policy, her lack of compassion, her foreign dealings. Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, long an ardent backer, echoed the feelings of many when he declared: "She has run out of puff...
...kidnaped beer baron is freed...
...think there's anything we can do to prepare except to prepare as a team," said member Jeffrey S. Baron...
...holdings include such staid institutions as the Australian of Sydney and the Times of London. But the eight big-city tabloids of Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, 52, which cover their turf from Boston to Fleet Street, rarely stray from lurid roots: NUDE PRINCIPAL DEAD IN MOTEL (San Antonio Express); HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR (New York Post). Last week Murdoch took his headline high jinks to the U.S. heartland. He bought the troubled Chicago Sun-Times, the nation's eighth largest urban daily, for $90 million in cash...
...automakers. Without continued pressure to hold down gasoline costs, Americans have been resuming their love affair with big cars. Sales of option-loaded large and luxury autos jumped 26%, to 1.79 million vehicles, in the 1983 model year that ended last month. Mid-size autos like the Chrysler Le Baron and Pontiac Phoenix were up 20%. Such results delight Detroit, because full-and mid-size cars are the most profitable. Meanwhile, sales of U.S.-made small cars totaled 3.23 million during the recent model year, up just...