Word: farness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three republics are also the cause of Gorbachev's greatest anxiety. Thanks to his policies of decentralization and democratization, the powers that be in the Baltics are looking less nervously toward Moscow, but they are also listening far more attentively to their own people...
Merrill Lynch was bullish on Alan Schlesinger as a prospective customer, but the company's brokers pushed him a little too far. Five years ago, the suburban Boston lawyer began an epic campaign to stop Merrill Lynch's brokers, as well as numerous rival callers, from peppering him with phone pitches. First he wrote a polite letter asking the company to desist, but still the calls came. Then he wrote a more threatening note, and still the calls came...
Bloodied but far from beaten, the Colombian cocaine cartel proved last week that it still has the will -- and the means -- to terrorize anyone who dares oppose it. On Monday Pablo Pelaez Gonzalez, a former mayor of Medellin and a vocal critic of the cartel, was being chauffeured from his home in the affluent El Poblado section of the city when at least eight gunmen riddled his car with bullets. Both Pelaez and his driver were killed. The same day, unidentified assailants fire bombed the summer homes of two prominent Medellin business executives. The attacks came as Eduardo Martinez Romero...
...Kafka's Amerika. "I was thinking about how he and Brecht and others saw America. Obviously, they got their ideas from the movies, the Keystone Kops, Chaplin. You think of these guys sitting in poky little movie houses in Central Europe in the 1920s watching these flickering images. As far as they were concerned, everything in America was all in the same place. You rode down Fifth Avenue straight into Monument Valley...
David Dinkins has been in politics for almost as long as Bradley, but he seems newer to many New York voters. He has garnered far fewer headlines than Giuliani, who made a name for himself with high-profile cases against Mafia chiefs and Wall Street cheats. Last week elated black voters were greeting Dinkins' victory with tears and shouts of celebration. But some had also already reined in their expectations about what any mayor, black or white, can achieve. "With the Dinkins victory, there is hope," says Utrice Leid, managing editor of the City Sun, a Brooklyn-based newspaper aimed...