Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most luminous satellite is Ithiel ("Teddy") Regler, a foreign affairs expert slightly less renowned than Henry Kissinger but equally in demand for consultations in Washington and around the world. Teddy's Manhattan lawyer tells Clara: "He thinks no more about going to Iran than I do about Coney Island." When they were lovers in the '60s, Clara inveigled Teddy into buying her an engagement ring with an emerald stone, costing $1,200 that he could barely afford at the time. They did not marry each other, for reasons neither quite understands, but a small army of other people instead. "What...
...March 5, 8 p.m. EST). The development of the A-bomb, retold as a three-hour TV movie. Brian Dennehy stars as the general who headed the Manhattan Project; Michael Tucker (L.A. Law) plays a top scientist; and David Ogden Stiers handles the F.D.R. impression...
...inflation news sent tremors of alarm through homes, offices and executive suites, where memories of the inflation battle of 1981-82 still linger. Those fears were quickly rekindled when major banks, led by Chase Manhattan, boosted their prime lending rate from 11% to 11.5%, the second increase in two weeks. At week's end the Federal Reserve confirmed the quickening trend by raising its discount rate, which is the rate it charges banks for short-term loans, from 6.5% to 7%. Anticipating the effects that $ rising rates will have on business and the economy, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged...
Harvard hired Gwathmey's firm to design plans for the Busch-Reisinger--which has a collection of Central and Northern European art--last year. The New-York based firm has worked previously at other universities and designed a proposed wing for the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan...
...armed services. In New York City peace activists have fought proposals to introduce Junior ROTC into predominantly nonwhite schools. "The message we are giving kids is there is no place for you in mainstream society," says Linda Farrell, a teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Manhattan. "The only place is the military, where you can be cannon fodder...