Word: denouement
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...turned on the case of Jonathan Jay Pollard, 32, an American naval intelligence analyst, who was given a sentence of life imprisonment last week for spying in Israel's behalf against the U.S. Pollard's wife Anne, 26, was condemned to prison for five years. In Israel this final denouement of the Pollard affair precipitated a painful self-examination of intelligence operations as well as worries about the future of the special relationship between Israel...
...only major problem lies in the script itself. The abrupt, anticlimactic denouement fails to resolve all the political and moral issues it raises. But as entertainment, Pass the Butler is more than satisfying. Fans awaiting the next Python flick should not pass this Butler and miss the antics of these would-be Pythonites...
...more likely denouement of this corporate drama is that Pennzoil and Texaco will finally strike an out-of-court deal. Texaco might pay Pennzoil in cash, or transfer some assets, including, perhaps, the Getty Oil company. The two companies have tried and failed to make their peace several times so far. After its latest victory, Pennzoil is sure to drive a harder bargain than ever...
...legitimacy and ideologues of any weapon in their fight for the soul of young China. Even Deng has had to mention force as a way of subduing the students, who have been, ironically, among his strongest backers. If he has to employ it, that would be a tragic denouement for the most hopeful period since Mao's revolutionary victory...
Gorbachev set the stage for the grim Sunday denouement on Saturday morning when he plucked a typewritten page from his briefcase. The paper summarized his wide-ranging set of new proposals, including cutting the strategic arsenals of both sides by 50% and eliminating intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) from Europe altogether. Gorbachev called for ten more years of strict adherence to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, a provision that would prevent SDI from producing "weapons of any new type which would provide military superiority to that side." He also made clear that the missile cutbacks were linked to curtailment...