Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about that Indy, eh. Ran the ad, no explanations, no justifications, no stories about how their editors debated the issue--just went right ahead and ran a potentially controversial ad. Thirty column inches. How insensitive...
Last week Marcos' luck finally ran out. As Filipinos joyously welcomed a new hero, President Corazon Aquino, TIME was once again very much on the scene. Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sandra Burton, along with Manila-based Reporter Nelly Sindayen, had witnessed most of the events of the past 2 1/2 years that led up to last week's revolution, from Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino's assassination in August 1983 to the emergence of "Cory" Aquino from shy widowhood to the Philippines' highest office. They were joined by Bangkok Bureau Chief James Willwerth and Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold in covering...
...aspects of the elections had been "rather strange," such as reports that Marcos had carried one province by a vote of 13,000 to 0. That was not a province, it was a precinct, said Marcos, and "it was family." When Laxalt answered, "I doubt very much if I ran in my home district I would get all the votes of my family," Marcos, who knew that the Senator's parents were French Basque immigrants, replied, "Well, Filipinos are more clannish than you independent Basques...
...luxurious Holiday Pyramids Hotel, which lies in the shadows of the Great Pyramids at Giza, were relaxing after a day of sightseeing. Without warning, a throng of armed men dressed in black uniforms burst through the front door. As staff and guests scrambled for cover, the intruders ran through the lobby, smashing windows and shooting at hotel security guards who tried to turn them away. Before the men left, they started a fire that burned for 36 hours, doing millions of dollars of damage...
...University of Florida in Gainesville, members from all 50 of the school's flourishing fraternities and sororities ran marathons for money and shook tin cups until they raised some $10,000 for the Stop Children's Cancer Fund...