Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tricky. Although since 1959 Britain has looked after nothing more than foreign affairs and defense for the Sultan, it has also, for an estimated annual fee of $12 million, supplied the nation with a highly disciplined corps of 750 Gurkha soldiers. In a rare interview on the eve of his birthday, the Sultan told TIME that there was no truth to speculation that the troops would be leaving with the British. "The Gurkha battalion will stay," he declared...
...night long the wind whipped through the streets. In addition, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has won every major election in Mexico since its founding in 1929, had last month absorbed its worst defeat ever, losing nine municipal and five legislative seats in two northern states. On the eve of last week's elections for the legislature in the impoverished southern state of Oaxaca, where leftists had been successfully organizing, and wooing, local peasants, another P.R.I, loss seemed imminent. Yet when the votes were counted, the P.R.I. had swept all 17 seats. The opposition immediately accused the ruling...
...June it reached a record 1248.30, up 61%. That increase is rivaled by only one other in the history of the index, which was begun in 1884 by Charles Henry Dow, the first editor of the Wall Street Journal. In 1932 and 1933, on the eve of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, it rose from 41 to 105, or 156%, more than doubling. That market, like the current one, was severely undervalued to begin with...
...December of 1967 Lyndon Johnson launched a mad jet dash around the world. Reynolds ended up as the trip's pool reporter in the Vatican when L.B.J. met Pope Paul VI on Christmas Eve for a joint plea for peace in Viet Nam. In the muted elegance of the Pope's library, Johnson gave the Pope a present. Reynolds watched as His Holiness unwrapped the gift, lifted it carefully from its packing, then stood nose to nose with a plastic bust of L.B.J. "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?" Reynolds asked, grinning from...
...have about 65% of the market, are the Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola of cigarettedom, far ahead of third-place Brown & Williamson (Kool, Raleigh, Viceroy), which has 10.9%. Following those three are Lorillard (Kent, Newport, True), American Brands (Carlton, Pall Mall, Lucky Strike) and the Liggett Group (L & M, Eve, Chesterfield...