Word: launchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secretary said the "moral difference" between the two superpowers forces the U.S. to develop SDI and bolster its military arsenal to make it clear to the Soviets that "it would be in their national interest not to fight and not to launch an attack...
...over CNA Financial, an insurance company that battled to remain independent. Tisch won; Loews owns 80% of the company. After the purchase, Tisch put in place a new chief executive. Today CNA is Loews' most profitable division. Still, Tisch felt bruised by the struggle and vowed never again to launch a hostile takeover...
...since trimmed 615 of 14,900 jobs. In June, General Electric absorbed front-running NBC (1985 advertising revenues: $2.7 billion) by purchasing the network's parent, RCA, for $6.3 billion. GE Executive Robert Wright will take over as NBC's president and CEO this week; he is expected to launch his own austerity program. The biggest factor in broadcast television's changing climate is that the networks no longer enjoy the hefty automatic annual increases in advertising rates and volume that they did in the past. This year overall ad revenue for the networks is projected at $8.2 billion, down...
...that Boston was trumpeting its new program, a similar project was being kicked off in Dallas. The city is seeking businesses and community groups to underwrite the future college tuitions of some 1,000 local sixth graders, most of them blacks from poor sections of the city. To help launch the project, the man who inspired it, New York City Entrepreneur Eugene Lang, was squired through a two-day round of banquets and tributes by Dallas Mayor A. Starke Taylor Jr. Five years ago, Lang promised the 61 sixth graders at his former elementary school in Harlem that he would...
...statesmen, including some of the Soviet Union's own. In May 1960 an American U-2 plane was downed near Sverdlovsk, and Nikita Khrushchev stormed out of a summit meeting with Dwight Eisenhower in Paris. In August 1968, just as Lyndon Johnson and the Kremlin leaders were preparing to launch the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia and SALT was postponed. In December 1979 the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that the U.S. Senate would not ratify the SALT II treaty. In September 1983 Soviet air-defense units shot down a Korean passenger plane, prompting Secretary...