Word: du
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they walked into Reagan's 69th-floor suite in the Plaza, the two Republican Senators (John Tower and Strom Thurmond), two Congressmen (Robert Michel of Illinois and Robert Bauman of Maryland) and two Governors (Pierre du Pont of Delaware and Charles Thone of Nebraska) had no inkling that they were stepping into G.O.P. history. They were there for a long-scheduled appointment to give Reagan their advice on who would be his best running mate. Most of the group favored Bush. But Reagan sounded skeptical. He asked just how Bush would help the ticket...
None of these Franco-American producers plans to sell his California quaff in Europe. Steven Spurrier, owner of the Paris wine school L'Académie du Vin, believes that to be a wise decision. Says he: "Moēt would be crazy to import Chandon Brut into France. In my opinion it is much better than their own Moēt et Chandon. They would be competing against themselves with a better-tasting wine at a better price...
...Journal line is a hit with many businessmen. As Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro told TIME'S Elizabeth Rudulph: "They ring the bell with their readers. People are seeing in print what they believe themselves." But even Shapiro admits that Journal editorials tend to be "somewhat strident." That stridency is at least partly redeemed by the Journal's op-ed page, a mélange of opinion (not always conservative), letters to the editor and coverage of the arts. The page now appears twice weekly but will become a daily feature in January...
...biggest catch was Kim, who was thus eliminated from the presidential elections, which the government has pledged to hold in 1981. The field seemed clear for the military to put forward a candidate of its own, perhaps the emerging strongman, Lieut. General Chun Du Hwan. As for the millionaire culprits, the authorities were magnanimous: the nine would "resign from all public offices" -and donate their wealth to the government's public welfare fund...
...that has been in effect ever since the assassination of President Park Chung Hee last October, and against the failure of the weak government of interim President Choi Kyu Hah to produce democratic reforms. The military-backed regime-dominated by the country's emerging strongman, Lieut. General Chun Du Hwan, head of the Defense Security Command as well as acting chief of the Korean CIA-responded with a far-reaching crackdown. It closed all 212 universities, detained hundreds of student militants, and arrested leading political figures, notably Kim Dae Jung, a dissident leader and a popular native...