Word: crashing
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...career move. As Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, he played the straightest arrow in Prohibition-era Chicago and made saintliness sexy. As Tom Farrell, the cryptic intelligence officer in 1987's No Way Out, he brought devious modernity to a character right out of a '40s suspense novel. As Crash Davis, the bush-league catcher in 1988's Bull Durham, he found charm in cynicism and anchored the first hit baseball movie in a dozen years. And as Ray Kinsella in the current Field of Dreams -- the Iowa farmer who hears spectral pleas of pain, builds a ball park...
...determined to become a successful corporate raider. In 1985 and 1986 he attempted, and failed, to take over four different companies. In early 1988 the 38-year-old maverick managed to acquire defense contractor Singer by bidding for it when no one else would, right after the stock-market crash. Last week, however, Bilzerian finally made what will probably be his most lasting mark on Wall Street. In the first jury verdict to arise out of the Government's three-year crackdown on insider trading, Bilzerian was convicted on nine counts of securities fraud and tax violations...
...been almost a given among experts for some time that part of the challenge to the U.S. and its allies is to bring global Communism in its decline to a soft landing rather than let it crash and burn. American politicians and statesmen have understood as much, at least in theory. Ronald Reagan spoke of Marxism as "inherently unstable" and doomed. But in the policies that went with this confident rhetoric, he, like his predecessors, concentrated on the task of matching Communism's strength and deterring its expansion, not on the more subtle and relevant dilemma of coping with...
...privileged childhood, she spent much of a decade in prison and exile. She suffered through the overthrow, imprisonment and execution of her father Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto at the hands of General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who ruled Pakistan from 1977 until his death in an airplane crash last year. Three months later, Bhutto became Prime Minister after waging a fiery political campaign that led hundreds of thousands of her supporters into the streets...
Following Zia's sudden death in a plane crash last August, Bhutto began a cross-country campaign to gain the post of prime minister, promising to safeguard human rights, lift restrictions on the freedom of the press and improve the education and well-being of the country's poor...