Word: pan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spends one day a week on its affairs. His main interest is marketing, for which he has an instinctive knack. Like most successful venture capitalists, Rosen sees far more deals than he can participate in. Working out of an office in New York City's Pan Am Building, he screens proposals "ruthlessly" and invests in only about one out of every 50 that are presented to him. Looking back over his three careers, Rosen says, "It was fun being an analyst and fun being an engineer, but this is the most fun of all." It should be. Rosen...
Just as fireworks celebrating the new year were subsiding, the guerrillas struck again at the meagerly defended Cuscatlán Bridge, a crossing 50 miles east of the capital on the Pan American Highway that many considered to be indestructible. Before government forces responded to the attack, the rebels managed to plant plastic explosives on the quarter-mile span. The blast snapped the suspension cables and sent twisted sections of roadway plummeting into the Lempa River. Until the bridge can be repaired, cotton, sugar and coffee harvests from the eastern departments will have to be transported across...
When the school counselors asked what career ambitions we had, we had both put down pro basketball. Our counselors naturally wanted second choices, if the pro career didn't pan out. I said sportcasting; Arne said basketball coaching...
Culture Club: Colour by Numbers (Virgin). Lead Singer Boy George may look like Peter Pan at a transvestite Mardi Gras, but this band purveys a straight and joyous brand...
...Astaire and the entire MGM back lot. Battle, a natural-born Broadway stunner, captivates the audience with an electrifying spirit that surges from his head to all ten toes. But the other family members are often deadly serious; they express themselves in Composer Henry Krieger's capacious Tin Pan arias, which haunt the ear without paying much more than lip service to the Afro rhythms that energized his Dreamgirls score. In the final gasp of the show's schizophrenia, young Willie comes to a perverse decision about the show he has dreamed of appearing in. It satisfies...