Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to gain support from the Harvard community, the union plastered kiosks, dormitories and walls across the College campus and the graduate schools with 2000 leaflets and ran an open letter advertisement to President Derek C. Bok in four issues of The Crimson during the week of festivities...
...clan, the craggy-faced Barefoot Sanders ruled that Placid must shift its petition for bankruptcy relief from a New Orleans court to Dallas. The banks wanted the case to be heard in Dallas, in Sanders' jurisdiction, but the Hunts hoped to avoid the judge. Sanders, a liberal Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate, has never been friendly with the conservative Republican Hunts. The Hunts may fear that having Sanders on the case could hurt their chances of holding on to what is left of their dwindling assets, which have been devastated by the deep slump...
...precious metal, which seemed a shrewd move as the price of silver climbed to a high of $50.35 per oz. in January 1980. It was a gamble characteristic of the sons of H.L. Hunt, who once made a living as a cardplayer. But this time the Hunts' luck ran out. When the silver price plummeted to $10.20 per oz. two months later, the Hunts were suddenly left with a debt of $1.5 billion. Shrugged Bunker Hunt: "A billion dollars isn't what it used...
When reports first emerged that Victor Cortez Jr., a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, had been tortured by policemen in Guadalajara, any words of Mexican repentance were drowned out by shouts of resentment. Mexico City's most influential newspaper, Excelsior, ran a cartoon showing two skunks, one labeled "DEA," the other "drug traffickers." An editorial asserted that the very presence of American intelligence-gathering agents created a "stinking sewer." Both the governor and the attorney general of Jalisco state, where the detention had taken place, flatly denied all charges of torture. And the country's Defense Minister, General Juan Arevalo...
...even among old friends. Australian Foreign Minister Bill Hayden has been thundering that subsidized American sales of wheat to the Soviet Union and sugar to China, traditional Australian markets, could undermine the bilateral defense alliance. Thais are so incensed by subsidized American rice exports that a Bangkok newspaper recently ran the headline BEST FRIEND U.S. CUTS THAILAND'S THROAT...