Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snow stopped before dawn, and still only Jim knew what was wrong down at the dealership. The old bell in the church belfry rang soon after light, just as Lyle took his muffins out of the Garland gas stove and served the engineer, who ate and ran, maddeningly, without divulging the reason for his stay. In a town short on stimulant, such intelligence could have been dear...
...command. In language not heard since the days of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader railed against "intolerable" waste in the economy and accused factory managers of "marking time." Said a prominent Moscow intellectual: "Andropov came out of the plenum stronger than he went into it. He ran the show. His enemies cannot smell blood...
...Milo Stephens Jr., a 19-year-old with a long history of emotional disturbance, threw himself into the path of a subway train as it pulled into a station on Manhattan's East Side. One of the cars ran over him, severing a leg, one arm and part of the other. Several months later his family retained Aaron Broder, an enterprising personal-injury lawyer, who sued the New York City Transit Authority for negligence. Broder acknowledged that Stephens had put himself at risk by jumping, but he was prepared to try to prove that the motorman had been negligently...
Last year's winner, though, could well be next year's loser. In 1982 Coleco Industries, pushed forward by its successful video-game machine, led the N.Y.S.E., going from 6% to 36%. In 1983 Coleco's stock zoomed further, to 65, but then it ran into delays and glitches with its new Adam computer. The hit of 1982 ended...
Last year's peppier bond sales still ran far below the $7.8 billion pace of 1978. Nonetheless, Treasury officials are convinced that the savings bond is on its way back to being a blue-chip investment and a superb stocking stuffer...