Word: freed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stake, or 42 million shares, for $2.07 billion (his profit: $600 million). The sale, which ranked as the largest single trade in Big Board history, was so unwieldy that three investment firms -- Shearson Lehman Hutton, Goldman, Sachs and Salomon Brothers -- teamed up to buy the shares. The bombshell transaction freed Icahn to prowl once more, setting off speculation that he would make another move to take over USX. Icahn owns some 29 million shares of the oil-and-steel concern, or 11.4%, worth about $1 billion. But so far, Icahn refuses to tip his hand...
...brought to life? Once the automatic answer was New York City, on Broadway or off. Now, for Pulitzer prizewinner Beth Henley, the starting place is Costa Mesa, Calif. For Emmy winner Luis Santeiro, it is Miami. For three-time Tony nominee Graciela Daniele, it is Philadelphia. And for Donald Freed, whose Circe and Bravo was a London success, it is Denver. Three of the Broadway season's major plays -- Eastern Standard, The Heidi Chronicles and Largely New York -- originated in Seattle, while Neil Simon's Rumors and A.R. Gurney's off-Broadway smash The Cocktail Hour were launched...
...some of her first actions as prime minister, Bhutto freed political prisoners, removed constraints on the press and legalized the formation of unions. "You can see the opposition on television--you could never see that there before," Peter Galbraith says of the changes she engineered...
...Angeles County, where some 22,000 prisoners are shoehorned into facilities built for 13,000, more than 100,000 prisoners have been freed in the past year before completing their terms. In Oregon, whose prisons are bulging with 5,000 convicts jammed into cells designed for 3,000, one inmate is released for each new one taken in. At Chicago's Cook County jail, many prisoners bed down on floors and in hallways. Says William Currie, spokesman for the Cook County sheriff's department: "The whole criminal-justice system is like sausage in a sausage machine. Somehow everything's gotten...
...police soon freed their five colleagues and arrested 94 students, but the incident shocked South Koreans. Despite almost daily clashes with student demonstrators, until last week only two policemen and two students had died since the country announced democratic reforms in 1987. Though the list of student grievances has changed over the years, one demand has not: the overthrow of the government...