Word: high
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispute. Certainly America cannot afford a Defense Secretary with an untreated drinking problem. The issue is how closely this description fits Tower. There are also legitimate concerns raised by the widespread, but not unequivocally documented, tales of Tower's predatory behavior toward women. If true, the allegations of sexual high jinks seem to reflect a pattern of reckless and perhaps unbalanced behavior that should disqualify Tower for such a sensitive post...
...long been able to claim the moral high ground in the campaign to stamp out chlorofluorocarbons, the chemicals that destroy the atmosphere's protective ozone layer. After all, America banned CFCs from spray cans more than a decade ago. And U.S. manufacturers are among the world's leaders in finding environmentally acceptable substitutes for CFCs, which are used as coolants and blowing agents for making plastic foam...
That prospect helped jolt the Europeans into moving on the CFC issue. And at a London conference on the ozone issue this week, E.C. ministers will try to persuade other nations to adopt the CFC ban. High on the lobbying list: developing countries, such as India and China, that are just starting to mass- produce refrigerators and other CFC-using products...
...have drifted to such discounters as K mart and Wal-Mart. Abandoning its decades-old philosophy of luring buyers with frequent sales, Sears is turning to "everyday low prices." To put new price tags on 1.5 billion pieces of merchandise, Sears recruited a temporary army of retirees and high school students. Together with regular Sears employees, the price changers wielded 29,000 label guns. Said Chris Skinner, a high school freshman who worked at the Sears outlet in Columbus' Northland Mall: "The worst was the screwdrivers. You had to take them all down, clean each one by hand, then...
...four decades engulfs Greece. The press, the Bank of Greece, a magistrate and Parliament are delving into charges of corruption, seeking to uncover how more than $210 million disappeared from the Bank of Crete. Charges of embezzlement, kickbacks and bribery, of banknotes stuffed into briefcases, have been leveled against high officials...