Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...declared a Grace attorney. The company still denies it polluted the wells or caused any illness. Grace settled, he said, only because it was less expensive than fighting the case. The settlement also ruled out the possibility that a jury would reach a precedent-setting verdict holding a corporation liable for injury caused by pollution...
...Last week a new, updated version of Superman began appearing on U.S. newsstands priced at 75 cents an issue, up 10 cents from three years ago. The price hardly matters, though, to Americans who are renewing their fascination with superheroes and the comic-book industry, whose revenues may reach $300 million this year...
...rise of crime -- almost any news item will serve to drive readers to distraction. Manhattan Psychiatrist Robert E. Gould finds that horror "is extremely distracting. That is one of the main purposes of its popularity. In difficult times, in the world outside and your own world, you reach out far from yourself. Also, you can control that horror. You can stop reading any time you want." His colleague Dr. Herbert Peyser agrees. In horror, he says, "we see an ordered world. We know it really isn't real, and we can master it. It's fantasy...
...voice vote and later overwhelmingly approved a revised version by a vote of 308 to 77, the final disposition of the measure may be settled at last. Attention will focus on the Senate, which passed the bill in August by a vote of 84 to 14. To reach the 34 votes necessary to prevent the Senate from overriding Reagan's veto, the White House needed to persuade 20 Senators to change their minds and support the President. At week's end congressional observers thought the President had the support of no more than 28 Senators total, half a dozen short...
...arms control or toward a Soviet-American summit. Instead, something quite different occurred. Movement on arms control increased, and so did hopes for a year-end meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. As a result, the dog seemed to wag the tail for a change: the desire to reach an accord on the major issues dividing the superpowers created an eagerness to resolve, as quickly as face-saving maneuvers would allow, the dispute involving the U.S. News & World Report correspondent and Gennadi Zakharov, the Soviet U.N. employee awaiting trial in New York City on spy charges...