Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accused rapist: a drifter from Georgia. The accuser: a 22-year-old woman who was wearing a white lace miniskirt, a green tank top and no underwear on Nov. 6, 1988, when she claimed she was kidnaped at knifepoint from a Fort Lauderdale restaurant parking lot and raped twice. The jury's verdict last week: not guilty, on the ground that she had solicited sex. "We all feel she asked for it for the way she was dressed," explained jury foreman Roy Diamond...
...launch a takeover raid on American Airlines, the largest and most respected U.S. carrier. In August the board of American's parent company, AMR, bolstered its so-called poison-pill defenses by allowing management greater flexibility to issue new stock in order to make a takeover more expensive. The Fort Worth company also signed up the high-powered Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers to develop a full-defense strategy. AMR even asked the New York Stock Exchange to investigate recent large trades in its stock, which caused volatile swings in its share price...
Some industry watchers think American could turn to hometown partners for help. Rumor had it that certain members of the billionaire Bass family of Fort Worth might take a large friendly stake in the company, as they did to protect the Walt Disney Co. from a raid several years ago. Or Crandall might borrow money to create an Employee Stock Ownership Plan to achieve the same goal...
...communique also said five coup leaders had taken refuge at Fort Clayton, a U.S. base a few miles from Panama City. U.S. officials have refused comment on that report...
Friday's haul easily topped the previous U.S. record of more than 8,700 pounds recorded in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 1937, and surpassed the world record, a 12-ton seizure in Colombia, said DEA agent Phil Hartman...