Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...catch Gaddafi asleep, though U.S. intelligence officials warned the Administration that the Colonel is believed to rotate his sleeping quarters for security reasons. No fewer than five F-111s were assigned to hit Gaddafi's compound. The hope, says a senior Administration official, was to "turn the barracks into dust...
...travel directly from shopping bag to airplane seat to coffee table to Harvard memorial bookshelf and a place of esteem next to Erich Segal's Class, last year's reunion volume. Alums should do themselves a favor by giving Class another read and leaving this 350th momento to collect dust...
Bonds were floated, donations solicited. The dust settled and the Quadrangle came up short, at least $8 million worth according to University officials...
...line of death" dare, double-daring him back, winning a public slapping match, sailing away. Yet, now what? America might seem just a bit less like a helpless giant, but could a breezy flick really be expected to chasten Gaddafi? And the sight of Army choppers kicking up dust in a foreign bush was disquieting, an eerie evocation of Apocalypse Now. In Ronald Reagan's two-front muscle flexing last week, the images and the reality were hard to sort out. Power, yes, and the will to use it, yes. But to what end? And with what effect? Will briefly...
...have become armchair financiers. Instead of consolidating their contributions in one safe place, many IRA holders shuttle their accounts from one investment to another as the economic winds change. Says Alfred Johnson, chief economist for the Investment Company Institute: "They no longer view IRAs as passive accounts that gather dust until retirement. IRAs have become aggressive investment tools. Consumers invest in them because they want to get rich." The fastest-growing new account is the self-directed variety, in which the customer can switch from, say, Treasury bonds to a real estate investment trust. Citibank offers an account called Direct...