Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enraged by the delays, some 60,000 squatters have occupied unused, white-owned land in the countryside, to the embarrassment of the Prime Minister. "Why do you rush to occupy farms without authority?" he demanded during a recent rally near Fort Victoria. "Hunger!" came the reply from the crowd. Bristling at the charges of Health Minister Dr. Herbert Ushewokunze that he was not moving fast enough to help the blacks, Mugabe two weeks ago sacked his fiery critic...
...sinking colón and thereby impress the IMF staff negotiating in San José. The cost: $45 million. As soon as the IMF team left town, the colón dropped again. In May he sold the country's $41 million in gold reserves stored at Fort Knox to pay short-term debts, further demonstrating that his government was, as a local journalist puts it, "like a junkie raiding Grandma's silver cabinet for one more fix." Today Costa Rica has no foreign exchange left...
...training programs). Said he: "I've always seen this as a ten-year job. It's time for a change, personally and institutionally." Jordan insisted he has fully recovered from injuries sustained 16 months ago when he was shot by a sniper outside a Fort Wayne, Ind., motel. That incident did not influence his decision, he said, adding: "I'm not leaving the movement. I'm leaving the leadership. I won't run away from civil rights cases as a lawyer, but I won't be at the cutting edge...
Some bankers were unhappy about he bidding battles. Said one Massachuetts S and L executive: "There is no doubt hat some institutions have reacted in an undignified manner." Edward Melcher, enior vice president of Atlantic Federal Savings & Loan Association in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which did not join the fray, said it reminded him of a price...
...with braces and pigtails pounding two-handed backhands, that one tends to forget: until 1971, just ten years ago, there were none. When the U.S. Open Tennis Championships began at Forest Hills that year, there was merely a name in small print on the list of competitors: Chris Evert, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She was 16, a champion junior player, the kind of promising youngster who is invited to play the tournament to gain a bit of big-time experience while being soundly thrashed in the opening round...