Word: number
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush is a lawyer, so he knows I'm innocent until proven guilty," Wall replies. He is wrong, of course: Bush is not a lawyer, and Wall, although he seems to lack the venality of other players in the Keating affair, is not innocent. Like a number of other legislators and Government officials, Wall paid more attention to cosseting the people he regulated than to safeguarding the depositors and taxpayers who depended on his vigilance. Although Wall says | he now sees Keating's "half-truths and obfuscations," more than a billion was lost while he dithered over closing the vault...
...biggest danger to Prague's inflexible leadership is an explicit Soviet disavowal of the 1968 invasion. Amazingly, that might be in the offing. Rude Pravo reported that Prague's chief of ideology, Jan Gojtik, had met with his Soviet opposite number in Moscow. Rude Pravo confirmed that the two men had dealt "with the history of the relations between the Communist parties, including the year 1968" and that "they reached a full identity of views." It has long been the accepted wisdom among Western and Czechoslovak experts that if the legitimacy of the 1968 invasion were ever officially questioned...
...stakes in the air war are high. About 20% of all airline passengers worldwide this year flew business class, and the number is growing. United Airlines is spending $45 million to revamp its business class, while Continental is doubling its international business-class capacity. Airlines have decided that, with executives at least, it pays to be class conscious...
Discontent boiled over last summer when local election returns gave an improbable 98.85% of the vote to the Communist Party. That anger found an outlet at the Nikolai Church, downtown, where a small band of peace activists had been meeting. Almost overnight their number grew into a mass movement for political freedom. "We didn't start this," says Pastor Christian Fuhrer, "but we protected it. We were the catalysts...
...growth of cable has also undermined network influence by dramatically expanding the number of channels available to viewers. During the past ten years, as cable has extended its reach to 56% of U.S. homes, the average network share of television audiences has plummeted, from 90% to just 61%. At the same time, the network share of television advertising revenues has diminished, from 45% in 1979 to 36% last year. Cable operators absorbed much of the ad spending that the networks lost, according to Alan Gottesman, who follows the broadcasting industry for Paine Webber...