Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lewis first got Wall Street's attention in 1984, when TLC snapped up Manhattan's McCall Pattern Co. with only $1 million in cash and $24 million in borrowed funds. He immediately set out to revitalize the 117-year-old sewing- pattern company. "We emphasized quality, cost containment and cash flow, and we made money," says Lewis. Indeed, McCall's earnings more than doubled last year, to $4.9 million. In July Lewis dazzled the financial community by selling McCall to the John Crowther Group, a British textilemaker. The buyer paid $63 million and agreed to assume $32 million in debts...
...react to the congressional hearings? Is there any truth to reports of a melancholy Reagan worrying and brooding about each hour's revelations? "Actually," says the President, "I didn't change my pattern or my schedule much at all. I might have a few minutes and step into the next room and turn on the TV just to see who was on and so forth. I didn't have to depend on the press. Our legal counsel kept me informed with a summary...
...that is four times greater for blacks than for whites. If present trends continue, blacks and Hispanics might constitute as much as 40% of the predicted 54,000 AIDS deaths in 1991. Warns Dr. Wayne Greaves, chief of infectious diseases at Howard University Hospital: "Unless we can interrupt this pattern of transmission, this disease could potentially affect the size of the black population...
...mock post-World War political dynamics. Scenes smack with references to the French Revolution and the civil war in Ireland. While Erpingham views a crowd of insurgent campers, "La Marseillaise" can be heard from a distance. OK, Joe, I get the hint. The campers follow the typical revolutionary pattern: frustrated by their efforts at peaceful reform, the rabble are instigated to get violent to the point of complete overthrow of the "government...
There is an additional complication on the West Coast. Periodically, a warm- water current in the Pacific shifts eastward in a pattern called El Nino, a Spanish eponym for the Christ Child, so called because it appears off South America around Christmastime. The result: higher sea levels, unusually high tides and severe winter storms along the western coast of the Americas. During the most recent major occurrence of El Nino, in the early 1980s, sea levels along the California coast rose an average of 5 in. With the added tides and storms, the effects were catastrophic. Thomas Terich, a professor...