Word: closedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such statements cannot disguise the hemorrhage of tourist and investment dollars. Hotels averaged only 30% occupancy last week, and seven temporarily closed their doors. More important for China's economic outlook, international organizations were reassessing their involvement. The World Bank is reconsidering more than $700 million in new loans that...
The phone on the desk of Richard Munro, chairman of Time Inc., rang at 6 p.m. last Tuesday. On the line was Martin Davis, chairman of Paramount Communications, a onetime industrial conglomerate that had changed its name from Gulf & Western just the day before. Davis had a stunning message for...
On Thursday, Communist and union officials held an emergency closed-door meeting aimed at breaking the impasse. Determining how to fill the 33 vacant seats was at the top of the agenda. One proposal called for a new vote on those seats in the second round of elections. But many...
In all the decades of the nation's fuming debate over nuclear power, opponents had never spoken with such indubitable authority as Sacramento voters did last week. They became the first ever to vote, by a solid 53.4%, to shut down a functioning nuclear power plant. The decision, in a...
Batman surely has consumer anticipation -- in Hollywoodese, "wanna-see." Last fall Fleet Street sent out helicopters to get photos from the film's closed London set. In the U.S. last winter, fans reportedly paid $6 to get into theaters where the 90-sec. trailer was being shown, then left before...