Word: domes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gergen spends much time devising visual backdrops for Reagan appearances. Outlined against the U.S. Capitol dome, Reagan proclaims his support of a balanced-budget constitutional amendment. In St. Louis his backdrop is grinning black children. Last week Reagan tried waging diplomacy by camera. White House spokesmen pointedly referred newsmen to how unsmiling the President was in greeting Israel's Foreign Minister Shamir. If this was meant to signal a new kind of diplomatic rebuff, it didn't overwhelm the Israelis, who went on bombing Beirut...
...credit risks in all of corporate America, Among the loans: $140 million to International Harvester, the deeply troubled Chicago farm-equipment manufacturer; $16 million to bankrupt Braniff Airways of Dallas; $57 million to Wickes Companies, Inc., a now bankrupt seller of lumber and furniture; $200 million to subsidiaries of Dome Petroleum, the struggling Canadian oil firm; and $80 million to American Invsco, a wavering condominium developer...
...emphasizing established business lines of demonstrated profitability." Despite ambitious efforts to find new oil, however, Exxon's results have been mixed. Since 1978 its oil reserves have dwindled 13%, to 7 bil lion bbl. In the meantime, costly drilling in the Baltimore Canyon and in the Destin Dome region of the Gulf of Mexico has turned up a discouraging number of dry holes. Wall Street stock analysts think that other oil companies may have greater growth potential, and the price of Exxon stock has plummeted 40%, to $27 per share, since November...
...lines snaking around 1,323 movie theaters this summer are long and eager; faces of every hue and age glow with anticipation. Outside Los Angeles' Cinerama Dome theater, a young woman on crutches stands patiently for 90 minutes, waiting to buy a ticket. Outside a theater in Washington, D.C., an elegant couple keeps cool by sipping tangerine daiquiris. Inside every theater there is applause as two names that certify movie magic appear on the screen: Steven Spielberg and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. One Boston man in his 20s exults: "This is our generation's Wizard...
...polled 1,000 of his readers on whether the U.S. should go to war if Argentina were to invade the Hoosier state. According to the columnist, 999 voted no; the sole holdout was undecided. Hoosiers hit back with a booster campaign of T shirts labeled ROYKO WHO? and ROYKO DOME-a swipe at his observation that it is silly for Indianapolis to plan a domed stadium when it has no major baseball or football franchises. Letters began coming in from across the state. "I was amazed how many people from Indiana could write," admits Royko, "though most of the letters...