Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stoically as her husband defied repeated warnings from Manila and decided to return to the Philippines to challenge Marcos, death sentence or no. Hardly had Ninoy's plane landed in Manila when he was met by a group of soldiers and hustled out of the plane. Seconds later, shots rang out, and Ninoy Aquino lay dead on the tarmac...
...members marched through the boulevards of Paris last week in memory of Malik Oussekine, a 22-year-old student who had been killed several days earlier in a violent clash with police. Though the overall tone of the procession was somber and defiant, at one point a celebratory cry rang out: "We have...
...paneled corridors of Manhattan's brokerage firms and investment houses, the scandal was reverberating in an atmosphere that one eminent Wall Street lawyer described as "hysteria." At blue-chip law firms, telephones rang incessantly as worried players of the multibillion-dollar business- takeover game sought advice and protection. Said a nervous Manhattan brokerage executive: "Everyone is scared to read the newspaper in case his name might be in it." Similar jitters struck in Los Angeles, where guards carefully screened visitors to the offices of one of the country's hottest investment firms, now the focus of curiosity and controversy...
...century painting (Yo: Picasso, a self-portrait, went for $5.83 million in 1981). Renoir's La Coiffure was gaveled down at $3.52 million; Joan Miro's Woman in the Night at $2.53 million; and Henry Moore's Reclining Figure (Festival) at $1.76 million. Sotheby's great rival, Christie's, rang up $30.6 million over two days. Most of the top-ticket items were purchased by dealers on behalf of unnamed clients...
Twenty-three years after the fatal shots rang out in Dallas, questions about the assassination of John F. Kennedy still reverberate. The 1964 Warren Report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot the President from the Texas School Book Depository. But 15 years later, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, while agreeing that Oswald was the murderer, decided he was most probably part of a conspiracy. Though some of the evidence leading to that finding has been discredited, conspiracy theories continue to proliferate, tracing the crime to everything from a Mafia cabal...