Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hoffman was already 31 when he and Jerry Rubin formed an amalgam of political pranksters into the Youth International Party. "Yippies believe in the violation of every law," he once told a crowd, "including the law of gravity." In 1968 they ran a pig for President. As a lead-up to that year's Democratic Convention in Chicago, they vowed to spike the local water supply with LSD. The schemes were mostly put-ons and fodder for the press, Hoffman's most faithful co-conspirator. It was revolution as street shtick...
...also a financial liability that could dent its earnings and preoccupy its managers for years. Some 20 class-action lawsuits have already been filed on behalf of Alaskan fishermen and businesses. The company is even getting something of a cold shoulder on Wall Street, where last week it ran into unexpected trouble selling a $110 million issue of two-year bonds, a modest offering for a behemoth with annual revenues of $88.6 billion...
...Japanese inroads in aerospace would be a serious blow to U.S. industrial might. American manufacturers exported $26.9 billion worth of passenger planes and military aircraft and missiles in 1988, which gave the U.S. a $17.9 billion surplus in aerospace trade. These were precious exports, considering that the U.S. ran an overall trade deficit of $119.8 billion last year; the gap with Japan alone was $52.1 billion. U.S. trade woes were underscored last week when the Government reported that the deficit during February widened to $10.5 billion, up 21% from the previous month. The major cause: a fresh flood of imports...
...Reagan Administration's agreement ran into turbulence during two of Bush's National Security Council sessions in mid-March. Outspoken opponents included White House chief of staff John Sununu, a former engineering professor, who argued that the U.S. risked losing the technological edge represented by the plane's so-called source codes, which coordinate its electronic features. The doubters were joined by Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher, who says he wanted to ensure that "this aviation technology, which has taken so many years of blood, sweat, tears and money to develop, did not instantly allow our biggest competitor to catch...
...recumbent incumbent" has just been elected to a fifth term, squeaking by with a 52% majority against a weak field of opponents. With no strong challenger to smoke him out, the tall, quiet Bradley got away with something akin to a Rose Garden strategy. He granted few interviews and ran in part on a platform of "the most ambitious sewer-improvement project in the nation." On election night, he talked about a new literacy program, public works jobs, beautifying neighborhoods and household-trash separation...