Word: disunion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couldn't help enjoying a jolt of schadenfreude. The couple, who wed after dating only three months, had spent the past few years denying rumors of their breakup; they even sued the Star for a June 1997 article that predicted a nasty divorce. As the ripples of this disunion wafted through Hollywood last week, Wall Street received a tremor: Planet Hollywood, the publicly held company partly owned by Willis and Moore, fell 1/16 of a point on the day after the couple's announcement, even though the Dow was up. GO MAGIC...
...midst of Soviet disunion, what's going to happen to the nukes? Money- hungry military officers in some hot spots are already renting armored personnel carriers and other weaponry to local militias with turf to protect. But they could probably get much steeper prices from more ambitious troublemakers abroad, especially those looking for really hard-to-find goods. "In this country at this time," says a Soviet historian, "anything can happen. If you can come up with a guarantee of $2 million, hard currency, I wager that I can put you in touch with somebody who would sell...