Word: maximal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimate decision to defect was made while Orchestra Conductor Maxim Shostakovich, 42, and his son Dmitri, 19, a concert pianist, were on tour with the U.S.S.R. Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra in West Germany. Though Maxim Shostakovich seemed emotionally strained as he conducted a composition by his father, few if any in the audience the Bavarian city of Fürth suspected what was afoot. During a post-concert dinner party in a nearby Nuremberg hotel, the Shostakoviches eluded the Soviet functionaries guarding the exits and slipped away to the local police station. There Maxim announced their intention to stay...
...always been a salesman's maxim that Bibles are a recession-proof product, and, with America's new turn to old-time religion, business is in full boom. Sales run to more than $150 million a year in the U.S. The industry is not only growing but evolving, from a steady but unglamorous trade to a high-pressure one. Verily, the Bible is in the process of becoming the greatest story ever sold...
Whether he wanted to or not, Al Haig has got himself into the same game. But he has added some new dimensions. He confronted a President in public, a heretofore forbidden gambit in power survival. Then he brushed aside another old maxim: if you have to claim pre-eminence publicly, you have already lost it. In the past, such pronouncements have often been the point of no return down the slippery slope toward the premature opportunity to go back to high pay, lush fringe benefits and absolute authority in the old firm. The odd thing is that when it happens...
...drink too much; where a black market in gasoline, used cars and objets d'art overmatches its Western counterpart; where suicide is disguised-who would take his own life in paradise? Yet it is also a place where dissidence is the badge of the patriot, and protesters underline Maxim Gorky's observation: "The Russian people ... learned to make sorrow a diversion ... made a carnival of grief; a fire is entertainment; and on a vacant face a bruise becomes an adornment...
...then on his own, Haig rose to a variety of important jobs; at one point he prepared briefings that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara presented to the President and the National Security Council. Once the major U.S. involvement in Viet Nam began, Haig decided to heed the old maxim that no Army officer can rise to the top without experience in combat command, which he lacked despite some brief battle experience in Korea. He went to Viet Nam in 1966 and the next year led a battalion to victory in the battle of Ap Gu, one of the major engagements...