Word: openings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile, SWAT members rang the club's doorbell and chanted, "One, two, three, four, open up the front door." At one point, Fly club president Joel S. Post '89 came up to the door and told the protesters to "get off our porch...
...name of anti- Communism -- but harder to justify. Why make the effort? Seventy years ago, Americans were not wildly enthusiastic about Woodrow Wilson's crusade for democracy. Whether a post-Soviet America will want to embrace Wilsonian idealism any more than did a pre-Soviet America is an open question...
...many others around the world who saw the rescue on TV last week. For eight days scientists and local oil-company personnel had acted as Pied Pipers, coaxing the exhausted leviathans toward an open lead in the ice pack, while Eskimos, many of them whalers, sawed breathing holes in the 6-in.-thick ice. The effort had its setbacks. The third member of the original trio vanished under the ice and was presumed dead. It took two days to lure Putu and Siku around a shoal. And a "hoverbarge" being towed from Prudhoe Bay bogged down and got stuck...
Once both proposals were out in the open, the two sides began to think about working together. On Tuesday, Oct. 25, Kravis and Cohen made their peace over breakfast at the Plaza Hotel. In a two-day series of round-the-clock meetings that followed, the KKR and Shearson/RJR teams discussed alternative buyout plans. George Roberts, who normally works out of KKR's offices in San Francisco, and Robinson of American Express joined Kravis, Cohen and Johnson in the negotiations...
...greatest benefits of the agreement, however, are harder to quantify. Competing in a more open market should force productivity gains, possibly as high as 5%. Another major plus: should protectionism erupt in Western Europe when most of it becomes economically unified in 1992, or in Asia, Canada would enjoy an assured safety in American markets...