Word: dump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groups determined to topple Noriega. The work stoppage was the latest evidence of mounting pressure for Noriega's ouster. The unrest began two months ago when Diaz Herrera publicly charged Noriega with corruption, election fraud and masterminding the murder of a leading opponent. Since then, the clamor to dump Noriega has grown more insistent. Indeed, Reagan Administration officials, anxious for Noriega to step down, said privately last week that they have begun to search for a successor behind whom they could throw their support...
...getting timely information about the securities. Small-time investors generally shun stock options, futures and other risky instruments unless they have carefully constructed a way to use them as a hedge against losses in their common-stock portfolio. Finally, they frequently establish predetermined selling points at which they will dump a stock to cut their losses or capture their gains. Says Melissa Lamb, 28, a Manhattan real-estate broker who is learning the hard way: "I have picked some good ones, but I just wait and wait in the hope of a bigger profit, until all the profit evaporates...
Only three days after the ban, thousands of Panamanians defiantly took to the streets of the capital. Their demand: dump General Noriega, who is not only the country's military commander but its de facto dictator. The government responded with determination. As helicopters monitored events from ! above, hundreds of riot police fanned out through the streets, controlling the crowds with nightsticks, tear gas and volleys of bird shot. Several people were hurt, none of them seriously. As the government digested the latest threat to its authority, concern was growing in Washington that one of the closest U.S. allies...
Under federal law, all states must establish low-level waste sites or have access to regional dumps by 1992. So far, only the Californians are enthusiastic, but that may change as other towns recognize the opportunities. Without the dump, observes Louis Clark of the Baker Valley News, "all our kids have to look forward to is pumping gas and washing dishes...
These and other departing companies have been under enormous pressure to get out of South Africa. Shareholder groups threatened to dump their stock, while states, cities and counties vowed to deny them contracts and customers pledged to boycott their products. South Africa's political unrest and sluggish economy have also been deterrents to doing business. The resolve of some firms to remain in South Africa weakened two weeks ago when the Rev. Leon Sullivan, who in 1977 wrote a widely accepted set of principles governing responsible investment in South Africa, advocated total corporate withdrawal from the country. He called...