Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Giancarlo Parretti acquired MGM last fall. Parretti smiled broadly for the cameras as guest of honor at a $250-and-up-a-plate charity dinner last month, shortly after asking studio creditors to take their long- delayed payments in weekly installments. He then flew to Europe in a frenzied quest for fresh capital...
...recently slashed to 70%), in part because the school was unusually aggressive about recouping every nickel it could. "I expect our controllers to do their best on behalf of the university," says Stanford President Donald Kennedy. Some would argue, however, that Stanford's controllers were overly zealous in their quest for money. Defense Department auditors say the university has been so uncooperative in the investigation that they threatened last week to turn the matter over to the Justice Department...
...Gacem claims that Pan-Arabism is "only rooted in the Arab masses," and that "it is exploited by their authoritarian dictators to manipulate people for their own sake." Only the second half of his claim is believable; Saddam Hussein shamelessly exploited Pan-Arab nationalism in his quest to decimate Kuwait and the unscrupulous King Hussein of Jordan invoked the same principle to aid Saddam's brutality surreptitiously, probably in violation of U.N. sanctions against Iraq. Ironically, Pan-Arabism, or what is left of it, has thus become almost synonymous with inter-Arab rapacity...
...publicly desired, but that he desperately tried to avoid in the final hours. -- What is left to liberate in Kuwait? -- The interrogation of captured soldiers offers fresh details about Baghdad's military machine. -- Yevgeni Primakov, adviser to President Gorbachev, provides the inside story of Moscow's ill-fated quest for a deal...
...took more than two years of private investigation and $396,000 of his personal fortune. But last week when two rangers from Masai Mara National Park were charged with the murder of his daughter Julie, John Ward made a major breakthrough in his quest for justice. The disappearance of the 28-year-old woman in the game park in September 1988 became a cause celebre in the British press. After her mutilated and burned remains were found by Ward, who was accompanied by park rangers, Kenyan authorities said she had been eaten by wild animals. But Ward, the owner...