Word: owned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shamir tried unconvincingly to put a positive gloss on events. "These matters contain nothing new," he said of the amendments. "We did not alter one iota of the peace initiative." Yet Shamir's labored efforts at spin control could neither disguise the fact that he had sacrificed his fledgling peace...
The Ruffo victory is nevertheless regarded as a crucial turning point for the seven-month-old presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari and a watershed in Mexican politics. Salinas, who took office amid charges that he was elected by fraud, vowed that "opposition victories will be respected." He has led...
but given up on department stores. Says Tess Goodier, 36, of Vienna, Va., mother of two young children: "It's so much easier than going over to J.C. Penney and chasing after my wandering kids." While the new catalog kings have much in common, each is trying to carve out...
Based in a 100-year-old converted brick mill in Paterson, N.J., Tweeds is the creation of refugees from rival J. Crew. Ted Pamperin, 48, Tweeds' chairman, had worked as J. Crew's executive vice president and Aschkenes as its merchandising director. Though paid well at J. Crew, the two...
Meanwhile, many believers in a woman's right to control her own body have become absolutists as well, hooked on the Constitution. They fear that any breach in the constitutional barrier -- that is, any role for the democratic process in settling the abortion issue -- will condemn women to mass death...