Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found guilty of racketeering, murder threats and extortion four years ago, Local 560 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters earned a dubious distinction: it became the first union local to be taken over by the Federal Government. Last week the local, based in Union City, N.J., held its first open and contested elections in more than 20 years...
...since taking office in 1981, he may have blown his chance of winning another term when elections are held by next June. Most politically explosive is the so-called Koskotas affair, Greece's biggest postwar banking scandal, which broke in October, just as Papandreou was returning to work after open-heart surgery. It has threatened to implicate two high-ranking government officials and has rocked his ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK...
...Soviet relations, Nancy and Raisa would be at home in the frozen-food section of a supermarket. At lunch in the Sutton Place townhouse of U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Mrs. Reagan interrupted Mrs. Gorbachev's lecture on the need for the two nations to become more open with one another. "Haven't we? Haven't we?" she cut in. Amid the shop-till-you-drop types, Barbara Bush was the only guest wearing the kind of suit a grandchild could spill apple juice on with impunity. She raised the room temperature 30 degrees by engaging...
First things first. Mrs. Gorbachev squeezed in a pilgrimage to the Fifth Avenue headquarters of Estee Lauder, which hopes to open a Moscow shop soon, and left smelling as if she had run a gauntlet of aggressive salesclerks on the first floor of Macy's. The empress-dowager of cosmetics first splashed Raisa with White Linen, then doused her with Beautiful, despite the protest "I have too much on already...
...Vermont. We are a timid, scared team right now and I have to get the losing demon out of our system. We have to exorcise it out, and it's my fault that we haven't yet."--Vermont basketball Coach Tom Brennan after Catamount Mike Lubas missed a wide-open layup at the buzzer during his team's 53-51 loss to Harvard...