Word: mindedness
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The biologist hails the Costa Ricans for their support of the Guanacaste project. Since 1970, Costa Rica has been one of Latin America's most conservation-minded countries. It has set aside nearly 20% of its land for parks and reserves -- more than any other nation in the tropics. Janzen...
While Texas banks were leaping into mergers, San Francisco's BankAmerica was trying to elude Los Angeles-based First Interstate Bancorp. BankAmerica, staggering from losses of $600 million over the past nine months, has steadfastly ignored First Interstate's offers of a friendly merger, but the would-be acquirer last...
The Iran scandal changed everything. A frustrated Washington press corps had felt itself ignored by a public that did not want to hear criticism of a popular President. But the sudden and steep decline in Reagan's popularity suggests that all along the public had recognized, in a man it...
Only three months ago, Laurence Tisch, 63, was being toasted as a hero at the Manhattan headquarters of powerful CBS. The billionaire chairman of Loews had suddenly emerged, to resounding cheers, as the No. 2 network's acting chief executive officer, after a dramatic boardroom confrontation with Ousted Chairman Thomas...
A great many mysteries feature journalists, largely because a great many mystery writers got their literary start at newspapers. Few have chronicled the freewheeling snoop as extensively, or as comically, as Gregory Mcdonald, Edgar winner and former arts and humanities editor of the Boston Globe, in his series about the...