Word: marking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failed, to take over four different companies. In early 1988 the 38-year-old maverick managed to acquire defense contractor Singer by bidding for it when no one else would, right after the stock-market crash. Last week, however, Bilzerian finally made what will probably be his most lasting mark on Wall Street. In the first jury verdict to arise out of the Government's three-year crackdown on insider trading, Bilzerian was convicted on nine counts of securities fraud and tax violations...
...question Army counsel Joseph Welch asked Joseph McCarthy 35 years ago when the Senator ruined the lives of those who did not agree with him by impugning their character and patriotism. The same question could be posed to Republican National Committee chairman Lee Atwater, his communications director Mark Goodin and Congressman Newt Gingrich...
...pages of rival Action Comics and become an instant icon of pop culture. Sullivan may not have owned Superman, but he could clone it. He called in cartoonist Bob Kane, then 18, and asked for a similar "super-duper" character. Kane went home, tossed the movies The Mark of Zorro and The Bat Whispers into an imaginary blender with Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine, and dreamed up Batman. The whole process took a few days...
Cover: Photograph by Mark Avery...
February 15: Men's hockey goalie Grant Blair records his seventh career shutout, tying a Harvard record, in a 3-0 win over Colgate. He will break the mark 11 months later...