Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael Dell, 23, started selling discount IBM PCs in 1984 as a freshman at the University of Texas. By last year his company was the eleventh largest U.S. maker of personal computers (fiscal 1988 sales: $159 million). But Dell faces tough competition. Three days after its announcement, Fort Worth-based Tandy said it will begin selling PS/2-compatible machines in June...
This time creativity carried the day, and the Eisner-Wells team took charge in September 1984. The Disney board ousted Miller, while voting Roy to the post of vice chairman. The Eisner-Wells duo flew immediately to Fort Worth to enlist support from Sid Bass, whose family was amassing a stake in the company (currently 17%). Bass was so impressed with Eisner and Wells that he promised to hold the stock for five years, an unusual commitment that would make Disney far less vulnerable to further takeover troubles...
...time, however, the text is alive with direct quotes from participants in those often heated discussions. "We wanted the letter to be authentic, not just bishops speaking but women also," explains Chairman Imesch. A sample zinger from Savannah: "I maintain membership in a church that is blatantly sexist." In Fort Worth, women complained that the ban on birth control meant "finding peace of mind only after childbearing years were over or husbands had died...
When the conspiracy trial of 13 white supremacists began in Fort Smith, Ark., last February on charges that they were part of a plot to overthrow the Government and establish an Aryan nation in the Pacific Northwest, prosecutors were convinced that a jury would return a guilty verdict. Three of the suspects lead Hitlerite hate groups and claim that the Government is under "Zionist occupation." Nine of the defendants were charged with conspiracy, and five were accused of planning to murder federal officials. Six of the 13 were in jail for other crimes, including two found guilty of murdering Alan...
...Starlifter carrying the first contingent of soldiers from Fort Bragg, N.C. landed at 4:30 p.m. (5:30 p.m. EDT) at Howard Air Base outside Panama City. Nearly 50 flights are expected by the time deployment is finished Friday...