Word: return
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first reports of Higgins' murder, the President cut short a Western- states speechmaking trip to return to Washington. He quickly conveyed his sorrow and outrage in a phone call to Higgins' wife Robin, a Marine public affairs officer. But throughout the week Bush was careful to apply a lesson that had been painfully learned by Jimmy Carter: never let a hostage crisis appear to consume the presidency. The President went to unusual lengths to create what might be called a mood of concerned normalcy, acting as host at a barbecue for members of Congress, playing tennis, even attending a ball...
...hold an asset for three years in order to qualify for this rate. The House measure, proposed by Georgia Democrat Ed Jenkins, would cut capital-gains taxes to 20% on investments held at least a year. But the cut would be short-lived; in two years the rate would return to 28% with indexing for inflation. Investors would be sure to roll over their assets and produce a quick windfall for the Treasury -- at the expense of future tax collections. House Speaker Tom Foley calls it "robbing from future generations." Lawrence Summers, a Harvard public-finance expert, calls it "probably...
...most black South Africans, such a story would have ended in forcible dispossession. In Zwane's case, his despairing family sought help from a legal-aid organization in Johannesburg called the Legal Resources Center. LRC lawyers obtained an order against the authorities and won permission for Zwane to return and rebuild his home and business...
...nearly two decades Princeton/Newport paid investors a 19% annual return by using computers to take advantage of small discrepancies between the prices of stocks and their associated warrants, which are the rights to buy stocks at a certain price. But then founding partner Jay Regan got greedy. According to the Government's case, the Princeton/Newport executives tried to manipulate the market, starting in mid-1984, through a technique called stock parking. They arranged to sell some securities at a loss and then repurchase them at the same or slightly higher prices. The party ended one wintry day in 1987, when...
Though no deaths or serious injuries were reported, nearly 25,000 people were evacuated from their homes and crowded into schools and hotels. As scattered rain dampened some of the fires in midweek, more than 4,000 evacuees were allowed to return home. But most of the blazes were still burning, and fire fighters said it would take days of rain to extinguish them. No such downpour was forecast...