Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bookstore on Massachusetts Avenue near Harvard Square. I watched the people walking in both directions for a few minutes--two old women. 20 students of different ages, maybe five professors and assorted other people going their daily business. I tended to like them all. A good selection of my fellow citizens...
...trappings of international diplomacy, although neither side offered major political concessions. The mercurial Papandreou seemed content with yet another demonstration of his aggressively independent style in East-West relations. His occasional anti-U.S. rhetoric and his jabs against NATO (see box) are based on the conviction that a fellow NATO ally, Turkey, and not the Soviet Union, represents the greatest threat to Greece's security...
DIED. Ben Abruzzo, 54, ballooning adventurer who braved sub-zero temperatures, raging storms and "cold sinks" in historic first balloon crossings of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; in the crash of a twin-engine Cessna 421 plane; in Albuquerque. With fellow New Mexico Businessmen Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, Real Estate Developer Abruzzo flew the helium-filled Double Eagle II on a six-day journey from a Maine meadow to a French wheatfield in 1978. Three years later, with Newman and two others, he took off in Double Eagle V from Nagashima, Japan, and crash-landed in Northern California...
Perhaps the most dangerous effect of the roaring dollar is the instability created in the international economy. Business works best in an atmosphere of known and predictable situations. When a currency as important as the U.S. dollar rises for no apparent reason, crisis becomes an executive's fellow traveler, and business suffers. Warns Henry Kaufman, the chief economist of Wall Street's Salomon Brothers: "This movement upward in the value of the dollar will, eventually, undermine our economic and financial stability...
When the triennial match for the world chess championship opened last September, excitement ran high. Enthusiasts from all over the Soviet Union and around the world flocked to Moscow's House of Trade Unions to watch Anatoli Karpov, 33, champion since 1975, defend his crown against fellow Soviet Citizen Gary Kasparov, 21, the youngest person ever to compete in a title match. Great, even unprecedented chess was predicted. But no one expected the record-breaking outcome: the longest drawn-out draw in championship history and, in a sport richly littered with strange events, probably the most controversial referee's ruling...