Word: moons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fourth of July is for celebrating freedom, which is what the Rev. Sun Myung Moon did. His particular cause for joy: independence from U.S. authorities. Moon went into federal prison in Danbury, Conn., nearly twelve months ago after his conviction on charges of income tax evasion. He claimed that the funds belonged to the church and that he was a victim of religious persecution. Released six months early for good behavior, the Korean-born founder and spiritual leader of the Unification Church must still spend a month and a half as a resident of the Oxford Project, an inmate-rehabilitation...
...draining the dregs of a coffee cup. Aware that I might be thrown out if the guards decided I was a journalist, I remained silent as the hostages took in their surroundings -- a blue pool sparkling with underwater lighting, deck chairs drawn up in regiments and a moon rising over the Mediterranean...
...dailies, with a combined circulation of 325,000. There is a newspaper war of sorts in New York City, home to both the venerable El Diario/La Prensa (circ. 70,000) and the upstart Noticias del Mundo (circ. 57,000), owned by the publishing arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. In Los Angeles, La Opinion (60,000) competes against Noticias' West Coast edition (30,000). The Midwest is served by Chicago's El Manana Daily (45,000). Miami's Diario Las Americas, founded in 1953, finds its biggest challenger in the Miami Herald, which publishes a daily...
...combining Hertz (1984 sales: $1.4 billion) with America's largest airline and UAL's 54-unit luxury Westin Hotel subsidiary, the deal will create a travel and hotel complex to serve the business traveler from plane to car to bed. Said UAL Chairman Richard Ferris: "The sun, the moon and the stars have all come together...
Undaunted, scientists continued to test the enigmatic substance. "People do not realize how slowly research progresses," says Dr. Jordan Gutterman, a leading interferon investigator at Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital. "You don't go to the moon on the first rocket." At a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Houston, it became clear that interferon has at the very least had a successful launch, and may be beginning to fulfill some of its early promise...