Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sale by their foreign owners: Canada's Campeau is trying to unload Bloomingdale's, while Britain's B.A.T Industries has put Saks Fifth Avenue and Marshall Field's on the block. However, Altman's problems went deeper, in part because it had acquired a dowdy, passe image. The company might have been turned around by the right owner, but Herscu, saddled with $1.5 billion in debts, had neither the cash nor the vision to pull off such a difficult renovation...
...sooner the better, some might think. The '50s and '60s landscape was one of atomic optimism on the go, of Sputnik-like motels and space-race tail fins. The style captured an attitude of innocent adventure in a TV fantasy of stucco and neon. Could Wally and the Beaver come to serious harm in a drive-in with a giant ice-cream cone for a roof? George Jetson, it seems, could have been the master architect of the whole doo-wop decade. Granted, one thing to be said for those stylistic oddities is that they extended a warmer welcome than...
...Czechoslovakia's 15.5 million citizens have more cause to be astounded by the events of recent weeks than Vaclav Havel? Since the Soviet invasion in 1968, Havel has been the conscience of Prague, a world-famed playwright who might have exploited his status as an intellectual superstar to emigrate to the West, but refused to do so. Instead, Havel, 53, stayed behind, suffering censorship, intermittent police surveillance and repeated jailings so he could continue to give voice to the frustrations and yearnings of a frightened -- and until now mute -- populace...
...potent symbols. And for the U.S. she represents one of the few genuine foreign policy triumphs of the decade -- the moral shift in American diplomatic thinking away from collaborating with authoritarian allies to standing with democracy. Last week, when it came to a choice between a military putsch that might have brought a vicious but strategic stability to the Philippines and a woman who headed the weak but nevertheless legitimate government of the country, Washington chose Aquino...
...American help was crucial to the Aquino cause, clearing the skies of rebel craft and allowing loyalists to consolidate their forces. In an interview late in the week, Aquino admitted that Philippine military planes had hesitated to strafe and bomb the rebel soldiers. When American might was clearly on Aquino's side, however, Philippine jets attacked rebel-controlled Sangley Point naval station, destroying eight planes on the ground. Their timing thrown off by the intervening U.S. forces, the rebels abandoned Villamor, Fort Bonifacio and the TV stations...