Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...detentions marked a fresh turn in the Recruit scandal, the spreading stock-for-influence deal that has already claimed three Cabinet ministers in the government of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. Shinto stands accused of taking $70,000 in bribes in the form of stock profits from heavily discounted shares of a Recruit Co. subsidiary. In return, the former NTT boss allegedly helped the fast-growing employment-and-communications firm break into the telecommunications business...
...battle. As the strike strangled airline operations, 9,500 nonunion secretaries, ticket agents and other workers were laid off. Aside from making a handful of flights between Miami and Latin American cities, the airline concentrated its efforts on keeping the Northeast shuttle flying so that the cash-rich deal with Trump would not fall through. To attract passengers, Eastern offered a temporary fare of $12 for weekend shuttle flights from New York to Washington or Boston, a fraction of its usual rate of $69. The tactic worked: the first flights sold well...
There was also some suggestion around the Milan shows last week that Gigli had left in a bit of a huff, having lost a wrangle over a choice scheduling spot to Ferre, whose revenues ($390 million in 1988) currently carry a good deal more clout than Gigli's (under $10 million). "One day I just woke up and thought I'd like to show in Paris," shrugs Gigli, perhaps forgetting that Paris, for other Italian designers (like Simonetta), turned into a nightmare that left them disenfranchised, with no singular creative identity. "I shouldn't yet take all this for more...
...blue comes hope. At the end of June Anderson learns that TWA Flight 847 has been hijacked and 39 American passengers are being held. Hajj, the chief guard, arrives with word that a package deal is in the works. "You will be going home," he says...
...July 1986 Father Jenco is freed. Jacobsen goes home in November, but the public revelation of a secret U.S. arms-for-hostages deal with Iran torpedoes any further releases. Two months later, Waite the mediator is himself kidnaped...