Word: connectedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Calvi was known in Rome as "God's banker" because of his close ties to the Vatican Bank. But in financial circles, his reputation was a little less heavenly. A year ago, he was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $11.7 million for exporting $26.4 million to...
The 90-min. documentary, which took 15 months and about $275,000 to prepare, was primarily the work of two people: Producer-Director-Writer George Crile, who also conducted several on-camera interviews, and Consultant Sam Adams, a former CIA analyst who was paid $25,000 to research and help...
Clustered inside the wedge-shaped steel-and-glass pavilion are 42 TV screens connected to 42 Sony videodisc machines, which are hooked up to 23 Apple II computers. Nine video stations on the ground floor explain the meaning of 480 energy-related terms. Don't know what a Pelton...
Even when their outstretched hands connected, Miguel and Juan Vazquez were not quite sure they had done it. "I didn't believe it," says Juan. "And I asked myself, 'Did I catch him?' " Miguel, his younger brother, was also uncertain. Says he: "It all happened so fast...
It is the middle class, rather than the desperately poor, that De la Madrid must worry about. Public confidence in the country is sinking along with the economy. Mindful of Lopez Portillo's earlier promise of abundance, Mexicans, as one well-connected local lawyer put it, "feel deep bitterness...