Word: haven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ninth-grade dropout got his rebirth in the Job Corps. Since 1984, he's dispensed his own good deeds at the George Foreman Youth and Community Center on Houston's north side. The small gym with its boxing ring and exercise gear is an after-school haven for 400 youths, some of them too poor to afford the $10-a-year dues...
...generally come around to the expectation that Allen's decision would go in favor of Time, many did not agree with his philosophy when the ruling was announced. They suspected the Delaware court of siding with corporate management to preserve the state's lucrative role as a corporate haven. Most major U.S. companies, including more than half of the 1,671 firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange, are incorporated in Delaware. Said a Wall Street analyst: "What was really at stake was the kingdom of Delaware as the guardian for directors against shareholder rights...
...sort of thinking and discussing right now," says Zhao Haiching, a post-doctoral student in biochemistry. "How should we move? We haven't decided...
...that powerful people in the Middle East sometimes behave irrationally is to flirt with the obvious. But Friedman buttresses this familiar thesis with fresh, arresting details. He chronicles the mounting debacle of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, which began with the announced goal of ending the safe haven enjoyed by Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization troops. In this Israel succeeded. That was almost easy, since a lot of Lebanese also wanted to get rid of the P.L.O. The Israeli soldiers were welcomed as saviors: "Everywhere you went in Lebanon, Jews were getting their pictures taken. This...
...communications intercepts. The investigation into his ex-wife's allegations was reopened in 1986, and after questioning by the FBI, Souther defected. In spite of his warm reception by the KGB, his marriage to a Russian and the birth of their daughter, he was not happy in Moscow. "I haven't found my niche exactly," Souther told Soviet television viewers last year, but he had decided "to live here or not to live." He apparently decided on the latter course: according to Kryuchkov, Souther had committed suicide "in a nervous state of mind...