Word: held
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think it was a very good tournament for us," Harvard Coach Ed Krass said. "The tournament sets a real good tone for the rest of our fall season. We outpointed Tenneesse unofficially, and we held our own with Kentucky...
...million in revenues. By selling shares for $20 apiece, the group plans to raise $23.3 million, $18 million of which would go to buying the ranch from its current owners, Joseph and Sally Conforte. Under its new ownership, the firm could function much like any other publicly held company. Except that its method of making money is not legal in any state besides Nevada...
...Cassandras predicted that huge deficits during an economic recovery would inevitably lead to renewed inflation (if the Fed went along by increasing the money supply) or an interest-rate squeeze and a U-turn back into recession (if the Fed held fast). They also were wrong. They overlooked the new globalization of credit markets and the willingness of foreigners to step in and supply the dough. The Cassandras have been updating their scenarios throughout the 1980s: the overvalued dollar will destroy American industry; or, the undervalued dollar will hand American industry to foreigners; or, when the foreigners get tired...
...dares say it out loud. But hopes are rising that some or all of the 15 hostages (nine of them American) being held by terrorists in Lebanon may at last be freed. Not tomorrow; a senior British diplomat predicts that the process of arranging a release will require "months rather than weeks." But he quickly adds that freedom might be expected in "months rather than years." Subject, that is, to one gargantuan if: the terrorists and their mentors in the government of Iran for once must refrain from posing financial or political ransom demands that would force Washington, London...
...differed considerably in tone from earlier threats to kill the captives. Another terrorist group freed Rudolf Cordes, a West German businessman, two weeks ago without exacting "any political price" -- or so the Bonn government insisted. Cordes' kidnapers had originally demanded freedom for the Hammadi brothers, two terrorists being held in Germany. But Abbas Hammadi is serving a 13-year prison term in Dusseldorf, and Mohammed Ali Hammadi is on trial in Frankfurt for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet and the murder of one of its passengers, a U.S. Navy diver...