Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authorized unspecified covert action to help oust Panamanian Leader Manuel Antonio Noriega. Not so, said both Democrat David Boren, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and ranking Republican William Cohen. The two Senators got questions from reporters even before the committee was briefed on the finding. That, they charged, meant the Administration had divulged the information to "set up" the committee as being unable to keep secrets...
Even back then, Clark Gable wouldn't have touched this script with a ten- foot swizzle stick. Nor can Cruise find much to dine on here; the film is a 100-minute canape. Maybe it was meant to be a Bright Lights, Big City with a happy ending, and with booze instead of dope as the recreational drug of choice. Bryan Brown, who plays Cruise's misanthropic mentor, does eventually go the way of all flash: he can cope with everything but success. But if there is a moral here, it is lost in the film's desperate dash...
...manipulate the Tokyo exchange. After the crash, they contend, the Finance Ministry allowed mutual funds to postpone revealing their losses, then asked banks and insurance companies to buy shares in a mass gesture of patriotism. Many brokers purportedly encouraged individual investors to load up on stocks even if it meant dipping into debt...
...City, London's financial center, blending in has meant hiring graduates of Oxford and Cambridge. Last year Nomura signed on more Oxbridge graduates than the Foreign Office. London has been the base for Nomura's enormously successful foray into the Eurobond business. In 1987 Nomura snared the leading share of the market: 13.2%, vs. 7.7% for Credit Suisse First Boston. Nomura won that battle with the same strategy that Japanese manufacturers employed to conquer world markets: innovative products and aggressive pricing. Among Nomura's most popular offerings are Eurobonds sold with so-called equity warrants, which give the purchaser...
Water memory was more serious. If true, it meant that water was somehow able to retain a memory of substances that had been dissolved in it. Physicists and biologists would have to drastically alter their view of matter, and pharmacologists would have to rethink conventional drug treatment. Moreover, homeopathic medicine, a fringe practice in the U.S. that is widespread in France, would get a boost. Homeopaths believe that extremely dilute solutions of some potentially harmful drugs, vigorously shaken -- a common homeopathic technique -- can treat disease...