Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However bright the coming decades appear for these scholars, a good number of them one day will have a dark past. They finance their undergraduate and graduate educations with loans supplied by the federal government at subsidized rates, promising to repay the American taxpayer once they find an occupation. But, in numbers far greater than one would expect from so privileged a group, these future leaders will betray that trust...
...unlikely stop for sightseers, but there they were: two carloads of serious-minded, dark-suited Japanese in a deserted parking lot in Chattanooga, Tenn. Each carrying a packed briefcase, the visitors gazed long and intently at the object of their interest: a rusted, run-down manufacturing plant as big as five football fields. The plant was obsolete and abandoned, but the Japanese were delighted by their discovery. Taking pains to conceal their satisfaction, they peered into the distance and busily scribbled in their notebooks. Later, after several trips back, they bought the forlorn plant. Today, after a $27 million investment...
...foreign bidders practically bump into one another at airports. To increase their already considerable bargaining power, many would-be buyers go to striking lengths to conceal their ultimate intentions. The Japanese Komatsu executives who went shopping in Tennessee for a factory kept their state government hosts completely in the dark about what they actually wanted. After a tour of the 1940s-era structure that eventually housed their heavy-equipment concern, the Japanese pronounced it "very dull and scary, very gloomy," recalls John Gregory, a Tennessee official who escorted the group. When the Komatsu executives suddenly announced that they were buying...
...sleek limousine glides through empty nighttime streets, circling the illuminated monuments of Washington. In the back seat, a clean-cut naval officer and a dark-haired beauty stare at each other a moment. Then they kiss, furiously. She flings herself on him. He gropes for the zipper of her strapless black-and-gold sheath. There is a flash of a man's hand on a creamy thigh, the pull of a black garter. Afterward, the officer and his friend relax into opposite corners of the limo and survey the damage. "My name is Tom," he says with a smile...
...station, to deliver a live broadcast to the nation. Sounding somewhat shaken, she said, "I want to tell you, all my countrymen, I am safe and the presidential security group is here and prepared. It's all right here, but it's a little noisy. Since it's still dark, I would advise ((people)) to stay put." General Fidel Ramos, Chief of the Armed Forces and a loyal backer of Aquino, also went on the air. Reassuring listeners that the situation would soon be under control, he said, "I support President Aquino and her government, and so does the rest...