Word: march
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Toshiyuki Nakamura, who was president of Japan's third largest paintmaker, Dai Nippon Toryo, was meeting in March with other executives in his office when he suddenly put his hand to his chest and fell from his chair, dead of a heart attack at 62. Nakamura had been trying to engineer a recovery for the company, which had plunged heavily into debt...
...disconcerting gyrations of the mainstream stocks, which are heavily played by institutional investors, have inspired many private investors to march to a different ticker. They prefer to find lesser-known companies whose stocks are undervalued or potential earnings overlooked. But to arrive at a hot property before Wall Street professionals is a feat that requires lots of homework, constant vigilance and a cool head. Says Investor Jeffrey Solomon, a hardware-sales representative based in Great Neck, N.Y., who carries a hand- held stock monitor at all times and studies charts and newsletters every night: "The astute investor can beat money...
That does not mean, of course, that Congress is without sin. Republican Senator David Durenberger, former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was sharply criticized in March for telling a Jewish group in Miami that the CIA had recruited an Israeli army officer to provide classified information on Israeli forces during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. He made this slip during the uproar over the life-imprisonment sentence imposed on an American, Jonathan Jay Pollard, who was caught spying for Israel. In a 1983 incident, members of the Intelligence Committees commented publicly on U.S. and CIA support for the Nicaraguan...
...gray at the temples, caterpillar-thick eyebrows and an aggressive Grecian nose tempered by a soft, almost shy smile. But in the Democratic presidential race Dukakis is as hot as a Friday-night traffic jam heading for Cape Cod. Ever since he unveiled his long-shot candidacy in March, Dukakis has been running like a modern-day Hermes in wing- tip shoes. He inherited most of Gary Hart's Iowa organization, raised a record $4.2 million in three months, and was judged by the keepers of the conventional wisdom as the winner of the Houston debate...
...billion a year; the Afghanistan occupation requires the deployment of close to 120,000 troops; the military budget consumes, according to some estimates, about 14% of total government spending. Gorbachev's domestic objectives will demand a massive reallocation of resources. As he told Britain's Margaret Thatcher in March, "We need a lasting peace to concentrate on the development of our society and to proceed to improve the life of the Soviet people...