Word: esteli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Congress's approval in December 1979 of loan guarantees covering $1.5 billion of Chrysler's borrowings?money it would need to survive?lacocca's hard est task began. Congress made the guarantees contingent on Chrysler's winning about $2 billion of concessions on its own: from the United Auto Workers, suppliers, state and local governments and 446 lenders. Those negotiations took six months and were concluded just as the company was days away from declaring formal bankruptcy...
DIED. Joseph H. Lauder, seventyish, cofounder, in 1946, with his wife Estée, of the highly successful cosmetics firm (estimated annual sales: more than $1 billion) that sells her name and formulas and achieved its look of glowing health under his financial stewardship as executive chairman; of a heart attack; in New York City...
...Force Cot. Robert O'Brien, a Pentagon spokesman, said U.S. observers on the island of Diego Garcia reported seeing a "40-second burn" in the sky at 5:15 EST, six minutes before the satellite's main hulk rammed fully into the dense atmosphere...
...North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) confirmed that the main body of the Soviet Cosmos 1402, estimated to weight about 8000 pounds, fell into the atmosphere at 5:21 p.m. EST...
Bridgette Bardot has finally found it. Not the perfect man (Mon Dieu, c'est im possible!), but something else that has al ways eluded her: the perfect role. After purring and pouting her way through countless films as the sultry femme fatale who could resist anything but temptation, Bardot has turned herself into another French institution, the wise and slightly world-weary philosophe. Voila! At 48, the sex object has become...