Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed to think that selling anything that he originally purchased represented a slap in the face." Some Wall Streeters believe it was not until Geneen left the board in May 1983 that Araskog, a West Point graduate who grew up on a Minnesota farm, could assume full command. The clearest signal that he was committed to major divestitures came last August, when ITT sold Continental Baking, which makes Wonder bread and Twinkies, to Ralston Purina for $475 million...
...press last week by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan in the form of a chart-studded, 262-page booklet (with two fat volumes still to come), puts more flesh than ever before on ideas that would-be tax reformers have been kicking around since the 1950s. It gives Americans their clearest idea yet of who might be helped and who hurt by a thoroughgoing rewrite of tax codes aimed at trading the elimination of most exemptions, deductions and preferences for deep slashes in tax rates...
...clearest example of the industry's chaos is the growing string of financial failures. Warns Economics Professor Lester Thurow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "A threat to the soundness of our private banking system is an economic nightmare." So far this year, 71 banks have collapsed, compared with 48 in all of 1983 and only ten in 1981. The latest failure was the First American Banking Co. (assets: $22.7 million) of Pendleton, Ore., whose office reopened last week as a branch of a competitor from a neighboring town. Government regulators have put more than...
...turn off his television set. Let those who like to know the news as soon as possible tune in. One possible compromise has been mentioned: close polls across the country at the same time, regardless of time zone differences. If this happens, the country will be presented with the clearest example yet of TV's power in society...
...confront the record of his own blindness and powerlessness when he wrote the articles on which this movie is based. It must be nerve-racking for the producers to offer a tale so lacking in standard melodramatic satisfactions. But the result is worth it, for this is the clearest film statement yet on how the nature of heroism has changed in this totalitarian century. In The Killing Fields, as in reality, swashbuckling begins to look not merely improbable but impractical. It is the survivor, silently, indefatigably worming his way through monolithic adversity toward the light, who rightly commands...