Word: directives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospect of the country's second largest conglomerate's shutting down indefinitely stirred Seoul into direct action. Hyundai produces the Excel, a subcompact popular in the U.S. and one of the most potent symbols of South Korea's economic coming of age. Though Chung denies that he caved in to government pressure, he admits that his initial refusal to negotiate was wrongheaded. "I thought they ((the union leaders)) were too young and inexperienced with company affairs to represent all the workers," says the 71-year-old Chung. "After I met with them personally, I found out I had been wrong...
...which mounted them on speedboats and used them to blow up a Nicaraguan oil refinery. Also Seaspray transferred some of its special helicopters to the CIA; several Seaspray pilots left the Army and were hired by the CIA as civilian employees. They then flew the choppers in direct attacks on the Sandinistas...
...supposed to be frenzied buying of stock by small investors. The little guy, or so goes the theory, always comes into the market at the worst possible time. Small investors seem to think so too: they are pouring money into mutual funds, but the majority are not doing much direct buying. Says Alfred Johnson, chief economist of the Investment Company Institute: "Small investors don't want to go head to head with the wily institutions...
...value of their investments rise feel richer and freer to spend. Though the stock market is often thought of as a kind of casino for the rich, an estimated 50 million Americans, or more than a fifth of the entire population, participate in the market either through direct ownership of shares or through interests in mutual funds, pension funds and the like. Many investors who were not especially wealthy in 1982 have now joined the ranks of the rich; the long rally has created an estimated 2,500 to 5,000 new millionaires...
...several trees quickly and efficiently, not bothering with the notches a lesser woodcutter would have to use to direct their fall. He dropped each tree precisely where he wanted it, blocked up on underbrush, the butt end hinged by a sliver of the tree's outer edge. He cut the heavier ends to 16-in. lengths to make them easier to load. Branches and tops were cut longer. He spent no more than ten minutes on a tree and walked surely through the brush with his chain saw running...