Word: result
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...courtship lasted more than two years and survived a spectacular last- minute challenge from a jealous suitor. But last week the long-awaited corporate marriage finally took place. The result: Time Warner Inc., the world's largest information and entertainment company. The new giant, with 35,000 employees and $10 billion in revenues this year, will be a global contender in the fields of magazines, books, music, movies, TV programs and cable...
...much of the criticism of Dukakis has been unfounded. Instead of really analyzing the state's problems--and putting them in the context of a regionwide downturn--the reaction has been centered on Dukakis, the man, and Dukakis, the perceived failure. The attacks are simply the result of his having been a big loser...
...that consumer prices last month increased at an annual rate of just 2%, the slowest pace in 16 months. While Greenspan said he sees inflation as a lingering menace, he confirmed that for the moment it has been eclipsed by a need to keep the economy afloat. As a result, interest rates on three-month Treasury bills have fallen from a high of 9.4% in late March to 7.9% last week. The clarity of the Fed's purpose has sent Wall Street on a bullish stampede to post-October 1987-crash highs. Last week the Dow Jones average climbed...
Since the intifadeh began 19 months ago, 572 Palestinians and 36 Israelis have died. But they are not the only casualties: thousands of young people in the Israeli-occupied West Bank have suffered a kind of intellectual starvation as a result of shutdowns of the area's schools. Israeli authorities, charging that the schools had become hotbeds of political unrest, not only barred some 330,000 elementary and secondary school children and 17,000 university students from attending courses but even outlawed private classes and kindergarten. Says Elham, a West Bank English teacher: "My children do nothing except watch...
Party stewards counted the votes once, then tallied them three more times. When the result was finally announced to the 544 Deputies in the hushed Parliament last week, the reason for all the counting became clear. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the leader of Poland's Communist Party, had won the country's presidency with just a single vote to spare...