Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Their financial statement included $26 million in loss provisions for the ill-starred Goodwill Games, which had ended less than four weeks earlier. Turner noted that while his losses are "on their face, quite large," TBS business operations continued to show "satisfactory growth." The seafaring entrepreneur clearly intends to hang onto his dogged spirit of optimism as he tries to beat past the threatening reefs...
Experts are divided about whether the OPEC pact will ultimately hang together. Shearson's Margoshes declares flatly that "it will hold." Says John Toalster, an analyst at Hoare Govett, a London brokerage firm: "The agreement represents a watershed for OPEC." The clan will stick together, these observers conclude, because oil producers have finally realized that they have nothing to gain and everything to lose from plummeting prices...
...This week Botha will address an important federal congress of his ruling National Party in Durban. Speaking in the same city last year, Botha gravely disappointed Western governments by failing to include in his address a list of widely anticipated racial reforms. This year Botha was simply expected to hang tough, and so there was little hope that he would say anything encouraging about releasing Nelson Mandela or negotiating with black leaders. On the contrary, as his government moves toward stricter controls and security measures, the prospect is for less flexibility than there was before -- and there was never very...
Some critics fault the Army for not changing with the times, but Burrows rejects the criticism. "We're hardheaded as well as softhearted," she insists. "We won't hang on to things just because we've always done them." As head of women's social services in Britain in the mid-1970s, Burrows met new demands by converting orphanages into shelters for battered women, and in Australia she has inaugurated new efforts to train unemployed youths. In the U.S., Army leaders have cut back street-corner proselytizing and increased counseling services...
...call, in a motherly way, their "house--the large and impressive second floor of a building located a stone's throw away from the Congress. Its walls bear the eerie reminder of the dirty war: thousands of black and white snap-shots, each with a name and a date, hang in solemn rows behind protective glass; and the shelves of an overflowing glass case sag under the weight of homemade trinkets sent to the mothers as gifts of moral support from all over the world. Here the mothers meet and work. Here they write the speeches that cap off their...