Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to guess about his destination after the election. With Midland suffering hard times, his connection with Harken offered a Dallas base from which to look for a new business and think about politics. But around Thanksgiving he learned from a former partner that a group attempting to buy the Rangers probably would fail to get American League approval. Always fascinated by baseball, Bush hesitated not a moment. Well before opening day in April, he had assembled a syndicate of investors far wealthier than...
...that's not why I was arrested. It was a setup, designed to scare a 16-year-old and his 20 teenage fellow travelers into behaving for the remainder of their summer behind the Iron Curtain. And scare me it did, though the authorities allowed me to rejoin my group after a few hours of interrogation...
...Switzerland, Minnesota Republican Rudy Boschwitz huffed that being rich enough to make hefty political contributions should not disqualify a candidate but should be regarded as "a sign of considerable achievement." By that standard, Gildenhorn is well suited for an embassy job. Though the American Academy of Diplomacy, a group of former diplomats, has rated him unqualified, the Washington real estate developer and his family have coughed up $230,000 for G.O.P. campaigns since...
...recession. Since late 1982, corporate debt has more than doubled, from $1.1 trillion to $2.2 trillion. Investors in junk bonds, the high-yield securities that account for $225 billion in debt, could be among the first to feel the pinch. According to a study conducted for a group of junk-bond issuers by the economic consulting firm Data Resources, 1 out of every 8 will default if the economy falls into a soft landing. A major recession could produce a 1-in-5 default rate over five years. This year some $3 billion worth of junk bonds either have defaulted...
...offers of assistance or by intimidating them. A search of Stevens' parents' property produced a police car, 100 police badges, 29 firearms and 26 license plates. This month the police obtained a search warrant in response to a 40-page affidavit prepared by the Green River Task Force, the group of King County officers assigned to the case. Recovered from Stevens' residence and his parents' home in Spokane were 55 boxes and bags of additional evidence, including 1,800 videotapes...