Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most foreign bankers have greeted Menem's plan with hedged optimism. But since Argentina has failed to keep up its payments to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, neither agency is eager to issue fresh credits without some proof of economic progress. "What's announced on paper can be very different from the results," said a U.S. credit analyst...
...conduct, the Coast Guard maintains that his handling of the ship after it ran aground was exemplary. Not only did he help prevent the oil spill from being even worse, but his actions may have saved lives as well. By adjusting the engine power, the captain was able to keep the vessel stable and pressed firmly against the reef...
...late. "We are in trouble," Cousins told Hazelwood over the phone. Moments earlier, the captain had felt the first shock of his ship -- and his career -- hitting the rocks. Hazelwood bolted onto the bridge, slowed the engines and took other steps to keep the ship from sliding off the reef...
Hazelwood is a free man today, at least until his trial, now scheduled to begin in October. He spends much of his time lobster fishing in Huntington Bay with a friend in order to earn money. The work is filthy, but it helps keep Hazelwood's mind off his new role as America's Environmental Enemy No. 1. It will probably be 1990 before Exxon and the National Transportation Safety Board release their reports on the Valdez spill. Meanwhile, late-night comics continue to rip into the skipper, and several songs about a drunken Hazelwood play on Alaskan radio stations...
...average salaries in the league keep rising, management will try to devise any methods to thwart rising costs," Duberstein said, "but I would say Hinz got a Harvard-sized deal. If he sticks with the team, he certainly will have the best contract of all 11th-round draft choices--he got a contract equivalent to that of a high eighth-round choice...