Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After Elliott Rivera's round-tripper made it 8-1 in the top of the fifth. Falcon pitcher Roch Rhinchart took out his frustration by beaning Tony Decease on the very next pitch. Maspons stepped to the plate and boomed his second straight homer, a 400 ft., monster, to dead center...
...Santa Cruz the unrepentant vets filed a court petition for reinstatement. Post 5888, which has grown to 112 members as a result of the controversy, says it wants to stay in the V.F.W. to provide some fresh thinking for hidebound older members. "The organization is going to be a dead dinosaur," said Anderson, "unless there are some creative new ideas...
...Davis would be named special envoys to seek ways of combating the problem. Said Mulroney: "We have broken a three-year deadlock by agreeing to our common and shared responsibility to preserve our common environment." Added Reagan: "I couldn't be happier about getting this under way and off dead center." The agreement, however, did not actually commit the Reagan Administration to take any action on acid rain...
Down the hall, he puts in 9 1/2-hour days running the company. "Some guys in this business slow down, retire and take it easy," he says. "A couple of months later, they're dead." Not Iacocca. He has spent almost 39 years in America's pivotal industry, and he still glories in the hurly-burly of his factory floors, in the sheer quantities of capital ($2.8 billion) and steel (1.3 million tons) and humans (110,000 employees) that he must commit to producing 2 million vehicles a year. Iacocca likes it best when he can make managing a car company...
...thick black notebook with gold lettering that is delivered to the Oval Office at 9:30 a.m. every working day, single lines about Gorbachev grew to paragraphs, and head shots became full- length photographs of a well-tailored, energetic man. Reagan took notice, knowing that Konstantin Chernenko would be dead sooner than later. Gorbachev's good-humored outing in Britain last December with his fur-clad, stylish wife provided plenty of new material. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stored up a lot of impressions from her 3 1/2 hours of meetings with Gorbachev, and she carried them all across the Atlantic...