Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their controlling interest in the Beverly Hills Hotel, though it was won in a bitter family struggle. Boesky's father-in-law had bought the hotel in the early 1950s and left 48% ownership to each of his daughters, Seema and her sister Muriel Slatkin. Muriel and Husband Burton ran the hotel until 1980, when the Boeskys managed to buy the remaining 4% stake from another relative...
...hierarchical structure that puts him alone atop the upward flow of information. Combined with Reagan's inclination to rely on his staff to sort out options, Regan's management style has earned him a reputation as the most powerful presidential adviser since Sherman Adams ran the White House under Dwight Eisenhower...
When home economists ran the kitchen, recipes read like laboratory reports, and human voices could rarely be discerned above the instructions for tsp. and tbsp. But that was a generation ago. Today cooking has become a prime medium for self-expression, television has made superstars of once anonymous chefs, and the voices of food writers resound through their works...
...Connery of the tommy gun, one of the weapons he carries when he teams up with Crime Buster Eliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner (Silverado). But the tommy gun is one of the few things the Brian De Palma movie has in common with the vintage TV series, which ran from 1959 to 1963 and featured a jailed Al Capone. In the film, for example, Capone, played by Robert De Niro, is still on the streets, running booze and plugging enemies. Connery, who was born in Scotland, says that Chicago reminds him of Glasgow, though guns are much rarer...
Both grew up in Nottingham, in England's Midlands, and came from families of modest means. His father was an electrician; her parents ran a candy shop. He became a policeman, she a secretary. But every free hour they were on the ice, practicing...