Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev had another interlocutor: the American people. From his Monday afternoon arrival at Washington's Andrews Air Force Base to his rainy Thursday night departure, the General Secretary seemed to be leading a full-court media blitz. He unfailingly turned on the charm in his public appearances, such as Tuesday night's state dinner at the White House, where he and Wife Raisa joined Pianist Van Cliburn in singing Moscow Nights. Later in the week he stopped his motorcade on Connecticut Avenue to hop out and press the flesh with passersby. Gushed one thrilled bystander: "It was like the coming...
...architecture critic. And they were all the more jarring to Britons who consider their capital the embodiment of cultural sophistication. Yet the Prince had a point. Architecturally, the capital lost its way after World War - II. Shortsighted planners with paper-thin budgets did compound the devastation of the Blitz. The glories of John Nash's Regency terraces, Inigo Jones' Banqueting House, John Soane's Bank of England and Wren's churches were juxtaposed with discordantly cheap, gray cement-and-glass office boxes and grim "purpose-built" public housing that sprouted in craters left by German V-bombs. Squares and courtyards...
...crews ready to step in if another jet develops difficulties that prevent its takeoff. The airline is spending $60 million this year on employee training. Customers receive cash rebates of $10 to $50 for filling out "report cards" grading the carrier's performance. Capping these efforts is an advertising blitz featuring full-page confessionals in major publications. "We grew so fast that we made mistakes," concede the ads, which promise an "intensified commitment to quality...
...over the initial trauma of Black Monday, they were calling up to reverse their redemptions." Michael Lipper, president of Lipper Analytical Securities, is not quite so confident. "The panic is over," he says, "but the jury is still out on the comfort factor." Fund companies have already launched a blitz of upbeat ads and letters to shareholders in an effort to convince customers that mutual funds are still a safe and lucrative alternative to the savings account -- or the mattress...
...crash posed a substantial challenge for the lame-duck government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who hands over power on Nov. 6 to his successor, Noboru Takeshita. Following Monday's precipitous slump, the Japanese Finance Ministry quietly pressured major trust funds and insurance companies to begin a stock-buying blitz. Most complied, says Economist Kinji Yajima, because "management knows well enough that to ignore such requests is to ask for lots of trouble...