Word: rests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and released this year, researchers analyzed 1,500 "inappropriate" letters sent to dozens of Hollywood celebrities. Only 5% of the writers cast themselves as enemies or would-be assassins. Others saw themselves as business associates, friends or religious saviors. But the rest acted like spouses or suitors. Says Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist in Newport Beach, Calif., who directed the project: "If you didn't know who the two people were, you would think it was a normal love letter." About 15% of the writers tried to approach the stars personally, usually...
...provoking protectionism, which would make it harder for developing countries to work off their debts by exporting their products to a key market. If the U.S. is really going to help, debt reduction must begin at home. Otherwise, the promise of the Brady plan -- along with much of the rest of America's influence abroad -- will be squandered. That, truly, would be unforgivable...
...recently Japan's treatment of the rest of the world as little more than a series of markets for Japanese goods has become less tenable...
...handwritten sign hangs beside the door of the Cavendish, Vt., general store: NO REST ROOMS. NO BARE FEET. NO DIRECTIONS TO THE SOLZHENITSYNS. An intriguing story can be read between these lines: not only the presence in this small (pop. 1,355) Vermont town of a world-renowned Russian author but also the determination of his adopted Yankee neighbors to protect his privacy...
...pull off the deal, Goldsmith and his partners propose to borrow nearly $17 billion. Drexel Burnham Lambert will raise $6.4 billion through a junk- bond issue, and Bankers Trust will assemble a consortium of banks to provide the rest. Yet B.A.T investors would get no cash for their 1.5 billion shares. Instead, Goldsmith and his partners, bidding through a company called Hoylake Investments, would pay B.A.T shareholders a combination of Hoylake stock and loan chits worth $13.82 a share (B.A.T stock was trading at 11.28 in London before the deal was announced). Hoylake would pay down the debts by selling...