Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is a home run, believe me," exulted Texas Governor Bill Clements. "This is a great day for Texas!" The beleaguered oil-patch state has had relatively few of those lately, but last week it got a potentially Texas-size economic spur. A consortium of 14 U.S. semiconductor firms chose Austin over competing sites in 34 states for its research center, which will spend an estimated $250 million annually. The consortium, called Sematech, for Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, includes fierce rivals that have joined forces on chip research in the face of bruising foreign competition. Austin's coup could help make...
...principal lyricist, Lloyd Webber chose Charles Hart, 26, a novice who had only one previous, unperformed musical to his credit; in counterbalance, the composer tapped the veteran director Hal Prince, 59, who * had contributed so much to the success of Evita. Lloyd Webber composed the role of Christine with his wife Sarah Brightman's crystalline voice and fragile Pre-Raphaelite looks in mind. The trick was casting the Opera Ghost. His choice was British Actor Michael Crawford, 45, whom he had heard sing in the 1979 London show Flowers for Algernon and who had appeared in such films...
...more than a year, lower fines and selective enforcement of speeding laws had been gaining favor in many states. In April, when Congress permitted all states to raise the speed limit on rural interstate highways to 65 m.p.h., 38 states chose...
...even know that Tatyana Andropov existed until she attended her husband's 1984 funeral. Consequently, to some people Raisa's high profile seems mildly scandalous. When she accompanied Gorbachev to the 1986 Reykjavik summit with Ronald Reagan (Nancy stayed home), a Soviet Foreign Ministry official griped, "Who chose her to represent the Soviet Union?" A young Moscow professional woman complains that on a Gorbachev visit in September to the port city of Murmansk, Raisa was seen in two different outfits the same day: "That may be O.K. for Paris, but not for Murmansk, where people get meat and butter only...
...next day. Realizing that he would have to sell a huge bundle of stocks to meet redemptions, he decided to concentrate on unloading issues that were down only 10% or so, rather than take heavy losses on shares that had taken a worse beating. In particular, he chose to sell many of the British stocks in the Magellan portfolio, since the London Exchange had not fared as badly as Wall Street. But even as Lynch was deciding what to sell, he was overcome by a bold urge to buy. "I was expecting a major rally the next day," he says...