Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was some good in all these inequities, Darst says. "In a very rough way, Radcliffe prepared you for the real world because you learned how to fight," she says...
Apartheid. Nearly everyone deplores it. Divestment. It is a way to fight apartheid by withdrawing U.S. investments from South Africa, so who can be against it? That may be an oversimplification, but leaders of the movement to apply economic pressure on Pretoria's white government are making dramatic progress in the U.S. with that argument. Even though its impact is sharply debated, divestment has become a new buzz word of social protest on college campuses, at shareholders' meetings and in legislatures across the country. Said Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley: "The issue of divestment has really caught fire...
...victory over Pickens was a costly one for Unocal. The company's elaborate takeover defenses, including the huge stock buy-back, will leave Unocal saddled with a long-term debt of $5.4 billion, compared with only $1.3 billion before the fight. This prompted Standard & Poor's last week to downgrade Unocal's credit rating. To support the massive debt, the company will probably have to trim back its oil exploration and perhaps even sell some assets to raise cash. Nonetheless, Unocal management saw the battle with Pickens as almost a moral duty. Many other corporate leaders agreed. Declared Armand Hammer...
Just two months ago, Ronald Reagan won a major round in his tireless fight for the MX missile when he persuaded Congress to release $1.5 billion to step up production of the controversial weapon. But in the long-running MX battle, victory can be fleeting. Last week the Senate forced the Administration to limit deployment of the MX to 50 missiles, half the number the White House wanted. The Defense Department, which had hoped to produce 48 more missiles in fiscal 1986, agreed to 21 and ultimately settled for twelve. Said Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of the Administration...
...TIME board expects the White House to fight hard for its plan to boost the personal exemption in order to help trim the total amount that individuals pay. Observed Emil Sunley, director of tax analysis for the accounting firm of Deloitte, Haskins & Sells: "The President is going to want to say, 'In my term of office, I have doubled the personal exemption and I have cut the marginal tax rates in half.' That has a nice ring...