Word: go
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sneak them to the front of the queue. Soviet emigration, for so long a trickle, has turned into an avalanche. Each year for three years the number of emigres has doubled, and so far in 1989 some 80,000 Soviets have applied to leave. More than 90% want to go...
Back in the days when the only way to see a movie was to go to a theater, a handful of Hollywood film studios shrewdly bought cinema chains to showcase their latest hits. Last week Japan's Sony put a new twist on this Hollywood strategy by plunging into the movie business as a way of selling its expanding video technology. In the largest-ever Japanese takeover of a U.S. company, the electronics giant (fiscal 1989 sales: $16 billion) snapped up Columbia Pictures Entertainment, agreeing to pay $3.4 billion and assume $1.2 billion in debts. Coming less than two years...
...Prime Minister Hun Sen -- and U.S. policy -- survive a Khmer Rouge bid for power? -- As the People's Republic of China celebrates its 40th anniversary, Jiang Zemin emerges as patriarch Deng Xiaoping's heir apparent. But will he go the distance? -- In South Africa, State President F.W. de Klerk has a surprising political foe: his brother...
HEALTH: Don't go back to spreading on the butter...
From the start, Lynn recalls, Vanessa weathered the rackety Redgraves with ego intact: "She was the only one of us who wasn't shy. If someone asked her to get up and sing, it wouldn't have bothered her for three seconds." The family's expectation that Redgrave would go into show business was tempered by her abrupt adolescent growth spurt to an eventual 5 ft. 11 in. She towered over classmates of both sexes and was considered too tall for anything but character parts. Her father had her study ballet so she would move well and tap dancing...