Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARTHA HOWARD WISHES THAT HER son Ken had been in a car accident. While supportive of the actor's decision to leave "Dynasty" for the American Repertory Theater (ART), she had hoped his character could have left the prime-time soap in worse physical shape...
...ferry, which was built in 1980, struck the Zeebrugge harbor wall or a sandbar as it made its way out of the port. But surviving passengers did not report feeling any sudden impact. Whatever happened, the bow doors of the cavernous vehicle deck, which was holding 88 cars and 36 trucks, suddenly swung open. The car deck flooded, causing the vessel to tip over. Peter Ford, managing director at Townsend Thoresen, the British company that owns the Herald of Free Enterprise, acknowledged that "somehow the doors burst open and the water rushed...
...falling back a bit to finish the week at 77 7/ 8. The decision also sparked a general stock market rally, which sent the Dow Jones industrial average up 53.71 points to a record 2280.23. But the euphoria will soon fade unless GM revs up its sputtering business. Its car and truck sales so far in 1987 are down 28.4% from the same period a year...
...seize this new opportunity" by presenting his Administration's own plan for a missile-free Europe. With those two moves, arms-control negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which have been stalled since last October's superpower summit in Reykjavik, suddenly took off like a racing car at Le Mans. For the first time since the grimaces and recriminations of that meeting, the two leaders seemed prepared, indeed determined, to make a historic deal...
...without having anyone lose face." The tale that ecologists were using airplanes to drop vipers into the woods of Perigord (as prey for endangered hawks) expressed provincial contempt for ecologists as impractical outsiders. "No one bothered to ask whether it wouldn't be cheaper to rent a car or truck to release the snakes," says Kapferer, "or whether the snakes would survive a fall from an airplane...