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...airports in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. One of the first business executives in the Northeast to come out strongly for Ronald Reagan during the 1980 Republican primaries, he eventually raised $600,000 for the campaign. Donovan's reward was a Cabinet post. From his earliest days in office, however, he was plagued by accusations, mostly made by gangsters, that he and his company had close ties to organized crime...
...Bonn, Ewald Moldt, to step into his office for a private chat. Jenninger asked the East German if rumors that Honecker might not be coming to West Germany on Sept. 26 were true. Replied Moldt awkwardly: "The timing of the visit is no longer realistic." Thus came the earliest official word that the first visit by an East German Communist Party leader to West Germany had been postponed−perhaps indefinitely...
...Silicon Valley's microchipped wonder companies, Atari was one of the earliest and most colorful. It gave birth to the video-game industry and churned out amusements like Pong, Asteroids and the home version of Pac-Man. It saw its sales explode from $30 million in 1976 to a peak of $2 billion in 1982. It spun off famous employee alumni, like Steven Jobs, co-founder and chairman of Apple Computer. Physically, it spread to 49 buildings around Sunnyvale, Calif. But its fall came even faster, as a fickle public cooled to its video games. Losses hit $539 million...
Each segment seems alike at development's earliest stage and contains the genetic information to make any one of the adult parts: said Allen Laughon of the University of Colorado, where much of the research took place...
Through the 3500 aluminum disks and about 22.500 texts, which document the epic poetry of Yugoslavia, Albania and Bosnia, it is possible to piece together the origins of the earliest oral literature which survives today--the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer...