Word: oft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three months ago, plummeted last week to less than $1, triggering suits by flabbergasted stockholders. One investor is reported to have lost $7 million in the debacle. But the hardest hit was Minkow. Not only had his $100 million stock holdings shrunk to less than $6 million, but his oft announced dream of making ZZZZ Best the "General Motors of carpet cleaning" was irrevocably shattered. Once lionized as an emblem of what brash youth can do, he had become, almost overnight, a symbol of where overreaching ambition can lead...
...innocence of an entire nation. Guilt is, like innocence, not collective but personal. There is discovered, or concealed, individual guilt. There is guilt which people acknowledge or deny. Everyone who directly experienced that era should today quietly ask himself about his involvement then," von Weizsacker said in an oft-quoted speech he delivered on the 40th anniversary of Germany's unconditional surrender...
...Army Intelligence after the war, his flight to South America in 1951 and, finally, his 1983 expulsion from Bolivia to stand trial in France. Unexpectedly, Barbie asked Cerdini for permission to read a statement. "I am being held here illegally," said the defendant without emotion, referring to his oft-repeated contention that he was unlawfully expelled from Bolivia. "I am the victim of a kidnaping . . . I'm not a prisoner, but a hostage." Then he stunned onlookers by refusing to submit further to the judicial proceedings. Said Barbie: "I have no intention of appearing again before this court...
Reagan was forced to rebut another startling disclosure by McFarlane, in this case an apparent contradiction of Reagan's oft-stated policy of refusing to pay ransom to terrorists. McFarlane claimed that in 1985 the President authorized a plan to pay $2 million provided by Texas Billionaire H. Ross Perot for the release of two American hostages in Beirut. "I don't recall anything ever being suggested in the line of ransom," Reagan said last week. But, he added, he may have discussed paying foreign agents who could help win the release of American captives. Said Reagan: "I've never...
...officers of the well-equipped police force are Afrikaners, and the army is unquestionably the best on the continent. But facing the angry defiance of the black majority, backed by the economic and moral opposition of the outside world, the embattled Afrikaners seem at last to be losing their oft proclaimed determination to maintain apartheid at all costs. Botha's forces may win a majority of the white votes in next week's election, but history promises the eventual victory to the blacks...