Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order for the Brady Plan to be more than just an idea, in order for it to work, the decision of the banks ((to reduce debt)) must not be voluntary. The U.S. Government should modify certain banking regulations to facilitate the concessions that the debtor countries are asking...
...recourse for some museums is to raise funds by selling work from their permanent collections, as MOMA recently did. In order to purchase an indubitable masterpiece, Van Gogh's Portrait of the Postmaster Roulin, for an undisclosed price, the museum sold and exchanged seven paintings. But this encourages museum trustees to think of the permanent collection as an impermanent one, a kind of stock portfolio that can be traded at will: not a good omen...
Last month Sotheby's $27 million loan to Bond, which up to then had been a closely guarded secret, was disclosed by Bond's own company. How much has been repaid? Sotheby's won't say; a spokesman for Dallhold soothingly announced that "all is in order" and only "10% to 25% of the picture price" (between $5.4 million and $13 million) remained to be paid. The balance would be satisfied by the sale of Bond's Manet, La Promenade, at Sotheby's last week...
...occasionally tugged at his uncle's sleeve. "He would try to tell me what play I should call." Sister Mary Roberts, the principal at St. Al's, broadcast Notre Dame's victory march over the loudspeaker each afternoon as school adjourned, perhaps because she belonged to the Order of Notre Dame. No wonder Holtz subsequently told his family that he would some day coach the Fighting Irish...
Lech Walesa is welcomed in the U.S. as a hero and pleads to let "deeds follow words" in Congress. But diplomatic caution and crippling deficits could shut America out of the emerging European order. -- The House swaps a pay hike for an honorarium ban, but the Senate passes on the bucks. -- As the S & L scandal spreads, the spotlight turns on the federal regulator who let the looting continue. -- Tornadoes strike 14 states, devastating Huntsville, Ala., and a New York school...