Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company's mostly franchised bottling operations, causing about 100 of the outlets, supplying roughly 70% of the U.S. market, to change hands. Goizueta's most radical step has been to overturn the cash-heavy financial management championed by longtime Coca-Cola Chairman Robert Woodruff. During Goizueta's reign, Coca-Cola has borrowed $1.3 billion, mostly to finance his string of entertainment acquisitions...
Allowing the establishment of final clubs was a move that any social psychologist would have applauded; historians also. In 1815, the exhausted leaders of Europe dispensed with a similar threat to their society by "enthroning" Napoleon on the small island of Elba, and allowing him to reign there...
...Geltz, the military has revealed that it values obedience far more than justice. It will not shrink from sacrificing individuals on the altar of pedagogic expediency. Lieutenant Geltz's mistreatment underscores the need for close civilian scrutiny of the military and strengthens the argument against giving the Pentagon free reign...
Reagan Administration policy during the final hours of the Marcos reign was set during a meeting last Sunday morning in the Bethesda, Md., home of Secretary of State George Shultz, at which the President's special envoy, Philip Habib, who had returned from Manila only hours before, presented a report on his trip. In attendance were Caspar Weinberger, the Secretary of Defense; Admiral William Crowe Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Robert Gates, deputy director for intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency; and John Poindexter, the National Security Adviser. Also present were three officials who had been preoccupied...
JIMMY PAGE, in his transition from Led Zeppelin to the Firm, has shelved his headlining status and satanic hooliganism and returned to his blues-based roots. On the Firm's languid first album, Page sounded like a sessionman rather than the guitar deity he was labeled during Zep's reign--not surprising since Page began his career as a sessionman for half of Britain, including the early Who. But on the Firm's new LP, Mean Business (Atlantic) Page begins to build up the band into more than just a mishmash of misfiring musicianship...