Word: junes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, ivory of questionable origin flowed into Hong Kong. Until mid- 1988, the importation of carved ivory was largely unregulated, and so tusks lacking documentation were diverted through the Middle East and elsewhere, where they were lightly carved so they could enter Hong Kong as legal ivory. Last June, as nations moved to ban ivory imports, Hong Kong set up a special customs task force aimed at smugglers, as well as a 24-hour hot line. It has closed its borders to ivory imports for the time being...
...Japan's ivory industry is determined to stay alive. In the two weeks before the country's June 19 ban on imports from non-African nations went into force, traders arranged for 35 ivory shipments to Japan, weighing 29 tons -- a fourth of 1988's imports. (Hong Kong officials worked overtime to approve the flurry of export permits for Japan-bound ivory.) In September Japan announced it was, "for the time being," adopting a zero quota for ivory imports. A government spokesman said Japan will follow closely the events at the Lausanne meeting before deciding whether to resume limited ivory...
...before the bid. But the airline industry is in the grip of takeover fever. After fending off bids from Los Angeles oilman Marvin Davis, the management and employees of No. 2-ranked United in Chicago are attempting to take their company private for an estimated $6.7 billion. And last June an investor group led by Los Angeles financier Alfred Checchi paid $3.6 billion for No. 4-ranked Northwest Airlines. Of the four largest U.S. carriers, only No. 3, Delta, has yet to take a direct hit in the takeover wars. And its turn may come...
...Surely the choice of the Dalai Lama, who has been living in India since he fled Chinese occupation forces in 1959, was meant as a slap at Beijing: a symbol of international condemnation of the Chinese government for its crackdown on the students' democracy movement in Tiananmen Square last June and imposition of martial law in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, following anti-Chinese riots last March...
...movement for uniform financing is more than two decades old. Since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that equal access to education is not a fundamental right under the federal Constitution, at least ten states have seen their school- financing systems overturned under state-constitution provisions. In June the Kentucky Supreme Court struck down that state's financing methods, ordering the legislature not only to equalize spending but also to reorganize "the whole gamut of the common-school system...