Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cut. Print. The editors were played by actors, but the scene was based on fact. It was re-enacted for a 30-second television commercial that will be launched this week in 20 cities. The first of three such TV spots, it ends with a simple reminder: "Week after week, there's no substitute for TIME...
Reagan has grown wary of Nitze's desire to cut a deal on SDI, so much so that the President passed him over for the directorship of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency despite a recommendation from George Shultz. Even so, Nitze's principal opponents within the Administration, Weinberger and Perle, have resigned. That leaves Paul Nitze on the inside, and who knows? Perhaps next year there will be one more opportunity to "work the problem" of arms control, one more chance to be part of the spirit of a superpower summit...
...adverse publicity has been rough on Drexel Burnham. For a while after the investigation started, some other investment banks suspended trading with the company, and commercial banks cut back lines of credit. But Joseph insists that business is now as good as ever. Says he: "The investigation made life more difficult for us, but we are stronger for it today." Joseph cannot speak with any assurance, though, until the outcome of Giuliani's probing is known -- one way or the other...
...traders smelled a rat, they were not far wrong. The problem was traced to a squirrel that is thought to have scampered onto a power line in Connecticut while carrying a piece of aluminum foil. That caused a power failure that cut off electricity to more than 2,000 area homes and businesses -- and knocked out NASDAQ computers in Trumbull, Conn. Traders may have lost a chance to make money, but at least their problem was only temporary. The squirrel was electrocuted...
...what will I most remember about Harvard many years hence? Probably the walks along the Charles with Jenny, the way we had to scrape and scrimp after Dad cut us off and the look on her face when she died...oh, wait, that wasn't me, it was Ryan O'Neal. Which just goes to show you, art imitates life and sometimes it's vice versa. Other times, it's the other way around. Go figure...