Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing is that he never stopped being a Sikh, and he remains full of admiration for the social reformers who founded the religion: "These guys were, like, wacko. They just appeared out of nowhere and were talking about justice and equality. Treat women equally, serve the poor, defend your rights. It fits the social and revolutionary agenda of the American republic to a tee." He shrugs. "Except that we wear beards and turbans...
Politics is not an intellectual pursuit for her; her political education was her own experience as a black woman. She never marched in the civil rights movement; her parents were her political models. "I can't separate myself from the fact that I grew up as a black child. My parents were quietly defiant of racism. I was born and raised in the North, but my roots are solidly in the South. In the summers we drove south to Canton, Miss., where my mother was from. My father would always ask, whenever we stopped for gas, if they had toilets...
...outmoded." KMO Realty Partners, which now owns Altman's real estate, controls the rights to the store's name. KMO will probably try to make some use of it, perhaps selling it to an apparel maker or retailer, but the B. Altman name will probably never grace another department store...
Prince of the Panhandle. T. Boone Pickens has few regrets about his raiding career. "Our motives were sincere," says the Amarillo, Texas, oilman. "We believed we could run those companies better than they were being run." Pickens, 61, never managed to acquire such energy giants as Gulf Oil, Phillips Petroleum and Unocal, all of which he attacked in the mid-'80s. Yet he enriched himself by acquiring stock in the companies and then selling the shares at a profit, making nearly $400 million on his Gulf raid alone...
...chosen to strike. There is still a commando group of about 15 members at large in West Germany. Some security experts doubt that the Herrhausen murder signals a new wave of R.A.F. terror. But, declared Heinrich Boge, head of the Bundeskriminalamt, which coordinates federal criminal investigations, "there was never any indication that they were giving...