Word: returned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, for example, WSGP took over Honolulu Federal in return for $17 million in new capital and $40 million in bonds. The group slashed the marketing budget and cut back operating hours; they also discounted $100 million in bad assets. Now the thrift could fetch as much as $150 million if sold...
...diplomatic maneuvers looked a bit flat-footed, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra seemed to execute several deft pirouettes. He announced that three exiled priests could return to Nicaragua and hinted that the Roman Catholic Church's radio station might be reopened within 90 days. Some Central American officials speculated that Ortega was merely trying to embarrass the Reagan Administration; others argued that with Nicaragua's economy a shambles, Ortega was genuinely bent on procuring peace. Whatever the case, on the public relations front, conceded a U.S. official, "the Sandinistas have certainly done much better than we have...
Indeed, the hills are alive with the sound of music -- and money. The five- week festival is one of the priciest in Europe, with tickets running upwards of $200 for the major opera productions. For those who can afford it, though, Salzburg affords in return an unparalleled opportunity to display wealth and finery. On the street in front of the Festspielhaus, Mercedes-Benz and BMW luxury sedans steadily disgorge one of the most elegantly dressed summer crowds in Europe, the men in tuxedoes or formal Austrian loden coats, the bejeweled women in couturier fantasies and silk dress dirndls. One favorite...
...late 1981 or early 1982 worked out a deal, which later fell through, to obtain a top-of-the-line T-72 Soviet battle tank from Iraq, a Soviet client, in return for American self-propelled artillery weapons for the Iraqi army...
...return of abducted Journalist Charles Glass raises questions about whether he slipped away unaided or was permitted by his captors to escape. -- Both Iran and the U. S. hunt for mines in the Persian Gulf. -- A lone gunman brings death to a sleepy English town. -- After years of permissiveness, the Dutch are now beginning to wonder if they have gone...