Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aftermath of the bruising battle, Time Warner will have to contend with up to $14 billion in new debt that was incurred in the takeover. But President N.J. Nicholas denied speculation that the combined company would be forced into a major selloff of assets to bring down the debt level. "We are under no pressure to cut, or sell, or do anything," Nicholas said. "We are going to grow our way out of this...
According to one associate, George was "terribly insecure around his father," apparently unsure of his standing. Not so, the son insists: "In the campaign, he and I attained a new level of friendship." Then, in a tone sounding more conjectural than convinced, he adds, "I know there were times -- I could just tell -- when he respected my opinion." But he had to guess when...
...meeting of national and regional party leaders last week, he proposed his own partial answer. If the party was blocking change by clinging to conservative attitudes, he lectured, then "a purge should take place, a purge was needed." He called for "an influx of fresh forces" affecting every level from factory collectives to the Politburo. Vowed Gorbachev: "This concerns everyone...
Moscow quickly dispatched a high-level delegation to meet the strikers, led by Politburo Member Nikolai Slyunkov. Mikhail Shchadov, the minister in charge of coal mines, had earlier told the workers that they were not prepared for the independence they were demanding. But after negotiating with local strike leaders into the early hours of the morning, the Moscow delegation finally agreed to sign a protocol promising that the region's mines could decide on their production levels and investments. The state would raise miners' pay for night shifts by $50 a month, a 40% increase, improve food supplies and spend...
...principal causes of casualties are terrain and weather. Never before have men fought for any length of time at such altitudes, breathing air that contains less than half the oxygen at sea level, at temperatures that drop below -43 degrees F, in blinding blizzards that can last days. Both sides admit that 8 out of 10 casualties are caused by the harsh conditions -- including soldiers being swept away in cascades of snow or tumbling into crevasses. Says a Pakistani officer at the northern end of the Saltoro sector: "We are brave. They are brave. And we both face the same...