Word: golden
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...then the squad began hitting rocks, losing five on a six-game string. The Crimson was blanked by Rutgers and California at the Golden Dome Classic in Newark, N.J., and, after edging past Dartmouth at home, 3-1, lost of Rutgers, 3-0, nemesis Princeton, 3-0, and Springfield, 3-1. The team was 5-7 and the Princeton match-up seemed a distant dream...
...government will respect the past, that it needs to be remembered in order to remind South Africans of their long and bitter road to democracy, this deference has not been extended to certain symbolic trappings of the old order. At the opening of Parliament last week, a ceremonial golden mace embellished with a frieze of circled ox wagons -- symbolic of the struggle of Afrikaner nationalists -- was conspicuously absent. An official muttered something about "a technical problem," though others think it will not be long before the mace, along with other totems of the old order (perhaps the hallway statues...
...owned, as is Pacific Lumber, by Hurwitz's Houston-based Maxxam company. After he grabbed Pacific in a 1986 hostile takeover, paid for largely with junk bonds issued by Drexel Burnham Lambert's Michael Milken, Hurwitz visited Pacific's mills at Scotia. "There's a story about the golden rule," he told employees. "He who has the gold rules." Then he drained $55 million from the firm's $93 million pension fund and, with the remaining $38 million, bought annuities from an insurance company that collapsed. (The U.S. Labor Department is suing; so far, Pacific has made good on retirees...
Pulp Fiction, a film by 31-year-old American director Quentin Tarantino, won the coveted Golden Palm Award for Best Movie at the Cannes International Film Festival. Reaction to the violent movie about the Los Angeles underworld was divided, a testament to the sentiment Tarantino declared upon winning: "I don't make movies that bring people together...
...HAITI: Golden Opportunity...