Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday evening, and television viewers all over France are rushing to finish up the dinner dishes. It is almost time for Ambition, a popular new program starring Financial Wizard Bernard Tapie, 44. Sporting a dark blue suit and his trademark red tie, the lively Parisian preaches hard work and street smarts as the roots of success. "Create companies and earn big money through entrepreneurship," he counsels his enthusiastic audience. "Dare to think...
Tapie enjoys the fruits of his success. He whizzes around France in a dark blue Mercedes or his personal twin-engine Falcon jet, and lives in Paris in a stylish Avenue Foch apartment with his wife and three children. Between takeovers, he cheers for the soccer team he owns, the popular Olympique of Marseilles. His plans for next fall include sponsoring an entrepreneurship camp for unemployed youth. "The rewards of business are not simply money," grins this cheerleader of capitalism. "It is the pleasure, the game, liberty, mobility, the possibility of creating. I believe in dreams, risk and laughter...
...Well. Anyway. Those old places. We wanted to see them all in Boston, but we couldn't get to any of them. We drove around one whole day not finding anything until it got dark. Then we came to an old building that didn't have a real name. It just said HOTEL on a little bitty sign. It was real pretty inside. Filled with antiques. The hotel didn't have a restaurant, but the nice lady at the desk sent us next door to an old house up on a hill behind some shrubs. It didn't have...
...regime, was forced into exile in Honduras. The move drew sharp criticism of the Sandinistas from Pope John Paul II during his pastoral visit to Colombia last week. The Pontiff delivered a speech declaring that he found Vega's expulsion a "nearly incredible act" that was reminiscent of the "dark ages," when priests in Latin America were persecuted. Vega, the second-ranking Catholic prelate in Nicaragua, was taken to the Honduran border by Sandinista police on July...
...least three more truckloads of soldiers pulled up, thousands of loyalists formed a barricade around the hotel, waving and chanting in the afternoon's sweltering summer heat. Inside the hotel, the leaders of the siege kept dropping dark hints about the intentions of the military. "We expect more troops to join us," said their spokesman Gerry Espina...