Word: boe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran-contra affair and questions about his involvement with Panama's Manuel Noriega. "We're all waiting for the other shoe to fall," says Geri Elich, elementary-school librarian and a Republican. In fact, most people dislike Bush more than they favor Dukakis. Says Prineville Mayor Wally Boe: "People aren't enthusiastic about Bush. They haven't been exposed enough to become unenthused with Dukakis...
...huge judgment could have a further chilling effect on the speculation that has swept the high-tech, high-volume stock market of the '80s. Boesky (pronounced Boe-ski), the son of a Russian immigrant, often played a central role in the dealmaking. His career was based on the high- rolling game known as risk arbitrage -- the opportunistic buying and selling of stocks in companies that appear on the verge of being taken over by other firms. The prices of those securities generally surge, giving arbitragers the chance to make swift profits...
...author of The Right to Silence: Privileged Clergy Communication and the Law. Bush adds that no recognized clergyman, accused of contempt of court for claiming the privilege, has lost if he fought for his rights and appealed to a higher court. In one celebrated instance, the Rev. Paul Boe, an American Lutheran Church official, avoided jail in 1974 after he refused to testify before a federal grand jury investigating an American Indian occupation of the reservation at Wounded Knee...
Telling had more, though, than a stern hand. He had the vision and daring to lead Sears into new fields like stock brokerage and real estate. After becoming chairman, he set up a strategic planning committee. Says Archie Boe, who retired in March as Sears president: "We studied every U.S. industry, even automobiles and steel...
...dropped the widely publicized "boe" bombshell. Meselson and his colleagues argued that the spots on leaves and rocks cited by the United States' government as evidence of "yellow rain" and chemical warfare by the Soviet Union may be nothing more than bee excrement...