Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal jury in Manhattan found that Bilzerian had concealed his ownership of stock during some of his takeover bids in order to make millions of dollars in illegal profits. Bilzerian, who plans to appeal, was also convicted of misleading the Securities and Exchange Commission. Scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 16, Bilzerian faces a possible 45-year prison term and $2.25 million in fines...
...unnatural act was the massacre on the square, not the peaceful democracy protests that preceded it. It was the party's attempt to reimpose order that brought chaos to the world's most populous nation...
George Bush seems to see the problem clearly. He has said that the industrialized democracies, led by the U.S., should move "beyond containment" and "integrate the Soviet Union into the world order." But he has spoken of that opportunity -- which is really an obligation -- in the future tense, as something we should think about now but do something about later, if current trends continue...
...raise consciousness through TV shows, movies and music about dangers to the environment. In TV spots that will air later this month, NBC's ALF will warn earthlings about the environment in a 60-second spot: "Public lands aren't like pizzas. You can't call up and order more." Tips about recycling, ozone depletion and aerosol sprays will be inserted in next season's shows. "If characters on shows are making these changes, they will impact the home," says producer Norman Lear...
Wylie, 41, is a peevish Manhattan literary agent whose most famous client is Salman Rushdie. It was Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses, that prompted the Ayatullah Khomeini to order his execution. The Wylie-Rushdie pairing is apt: if only one of them is an agent, both are provocateurs. At a time when many agents have turned mercenary, Wylie tops them all in aggressiveness and acerbity. Says he: "This little East Hampton approach to publishing, where publishers and agents share summer houses so that they can get together and shaft the writers, has gone by the board -- I'd like...