Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old member of the U.S. National Team, Kenworthy visited Guatemala. He went back to Central America last summer, not to fire centering passes or launch one of his blistering drives to the corner of the net, but to work on a collective farm and learn about Nicaragua's revolution...
...fundraising game now has higher stakes than ever before, and Harvard won't be left behind in the nationwide race for donations. Forty universities across the country are pushing to raise more than $1 million each, amounting to a combined goal of nearly $7 billion. Stanford University will soon launch the biggest drive ever--to raise $1 billion. In December 1984, Harvard wrapped up its largest campaign by raising $360 million for the College and public policy programs alone. The country's richest school also raked in more contribution dollars--$145 million from individual donors and corporations--than any other...
...wearing several pairs of trousers at once in winter. (Harry calls this "absurd.") But in 1983, according to his adversaries, Harry John began to behave oddly in far more significant ways, funneling $3 million into underwater treasure hunts, paying employees $100,000 salaries and spending $100 million to launch a still inconsequential television company known as Santa Fe Communications to spread the Catholic word worldwide. Harry, says Erica, had gone "Hollywood" in 1983-84, tooling around Los Angeles in a Lincoln Continental and indulging in $500 dinners. He also moved to Las Vegas and divorced Erica, claiming "irreconcilable differences." Erica...
...Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's government may have knowingly violated U.S. laws by hiring Deaver. In particular, they questioned the possible role played by Allan Gotlieb, Canada's highly regarded Ambassador to Washington, in recruiting Deaver. The House of Commons' External Affairs Committee will decide this week whether to launch a formal investigation...
Buthelezi's political base is the 1 million-strong Inkatha, the Zulu movement he leads. On May Day, when militant black union leaders who favor divestiture spearheaded a nationwide walkout, Buthelezi staged a rally to launch a new labor organization to challenge them. "Why are they so persistent to push disinvestment even with the knowledge that we blacks, whom they purport to be helping, are the ones who will suffer most?" he asks...