Word: jewel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Nightingale, the Chinese Emperor, although captivated by the sound of his songbird, replaces it with a jewel-encrusted replica. The parable may reflect the mid-life anxieties of Mick Jagger, 39, who plays the Emperor in this summer's broadcast of Showtime TV's Faerie Tale Theater. Anticipating the end of the Rolling Stones after two decades of great music, Jagger seems to be pointing toward a new life in film. Let's Spend the Night Together, Director Hal Ashby's portrait of the Stones...
...depressing one. Cash debts are staggering: the islands as a whole owe Western banks and governments more than $6.5 billion. In Jamaica (pop. 2.2 million) the $1.4 billion foreign debt is equal to 40% of the country's entire gross domestic product. In Grenada, the Marxist-inspired New Jewel Movement has run up a $17.1 million debt that equals 21 % of the country's annual production of goods and services. Despite largescale emigration from the islands, unemployment has reached rates of more than 30%, with the level approaching 50% among increasingly restive youths. Says Rex Nettleford, a Jamaican...
...past, introduction of a new-from-the-wheels-up model like the 760 would have meant a major financial commitment by Volvo. But following an ambitious diversification program that was begun six years ago, automobiles now account for only 35% of sales. The crown jewel was last year's acquisition of Beijerinvest, a large energy trading company, for $305 million. With the acquisition came 31 oil-drilling sites in the North Sea. In August, Volvo expanded its oil holdings by buying 50% of Hamilton Brothers Petroleum Corp., a private U.S. firm that also explores for offshore crude. Despite weakening...
Native of Michigan, Vietnam veteran, source of intense family pride, Maj. Brewster H. Shaw Jr. will climb aboard the jewel of America's space program sometime next September for a flight which may be the shuttle's first round-trip voyage--from Cape Canaveral, Fla. and back again. With Brewster finally having his day in orbit after five years in the space program, relatives and friends look to the shuttle with pride and excitement. The overall purpose of the ninth mission will to them to be irrelevant. However, this flight--along with the others, including this week's--will likely...
...South Side Chicago home. Although he was arraigned on other charges (including failing to register firearms), there were curious coincidences in terms of the Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in the Chicago area. For the past 13 years Arnold has worked on the loading dock of the Jewel Food warehouse in suburban Melrose Park. Tainted Tylenol was found in two Jewel supermarkets. Describing Arnold as a "closet chemist," police searched his house and turned up a suspicious-looking plastic bag of white powder, along with drug manuals that contained instructions for encapsulating cyanide. A lab test found the powder...