Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bird's layup broke a 2-2 tie and began a 12-2 surge that lifted the Celtics into a 14-4 lead just 4:31 into the game. Bird had four points and three assists in that span. He had 14 points in the first quarter, which ended with Boston in front...
...Commerce Department reported that the U.S. economy, which grew at a sluggish 2.5% rate last year, expanded at an annual rate of 4.3% for the first three months of 1987. But the seemingly strong showing, largely due to an increase in unsold goods, may be reversed in the second quarter. If so, U.S. officials will feel even more pressed to find a resolution to the troubling trade issues...
...chief romance in Pygmalion is between O'Toole and his audience. O'Toole ! often pauses in three-quarter profile, displaying the blond mane that has edged imperceptibly toward silver, the classical beauty that seems enhanced rather than marred by a slightly lopsided jawline. His Higgins is a star turn in almost 19th century fashion -- at once shrewdly alert Shavianism and a brilliantly calibrated indulgence in boyish adorability...
Harry Oppenheimer, son of the founder of the Anglo American Corp., the gigantic mining, manufacturing and retailing conglomerate that controls about a quarter of the country's wealth, used to take an active part in politics. He sat as a liberal in Parliament and financed the opposition Progressive Federal Party. But his efforts came to nothing. Though the corporations that the English speakers control might be expected to give them considerable political clout, the Afrikaner regime runs the country. When asked to explain the gap between English economic power and political impotence, Anglo American's current chairman Gavin Relly says...
Although grumbling about the quarter-century delay, the Soviets, who annexed Estonia during the war, nevertheless complimented the U.S. for finally deporting the immigrant. Moscow officials left little doubt about his future. Soviet Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said Linnas could appeal for a pardon, but that any delay in the execution of the final sentence "will be shorter than that which is usual for American justice." The Soviet Foreign Ministry later announced that a court would review Linnas' death sentence, as well as evidence against him discovered in the years since his conviction...