Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Drexler worked similar magic at the Gap. Between 1983 and 1986 its sales rose from $480 million to $848 million as the number of stores expanded from 550 to 724. Banana Republic alone grew to 65 stores. The Gap's annual profits ballooned from $21.6 million to $68.1 million. Before its dive, the firm's stock price had risen nearly 2,900% in five years. Said Dean Witter Reynolds Analyst William Tichy before the stock's plunge: "This thing has just defied the law of gravity...
...battle between the two bases had gone on since early morning. A friend and I drove down late in the afternoon towards the bases as the two government Tora-Tora planes bombed Camp Aguinaldo. Smoke rose up from the camp as the two planes circled overhead and then dove, dropping their bombs...
...lost his post as general secretary after being criticized as too soft on pro-democracy student demonstrators. Both Hu and Zhao rose to power as proteges of top leader Deng Xiaoping...
When Li Shuchang became a Communist Party chief in the northeastern town of Yingkou, his family quickly prospered. Li named a son to be deputy director of the local industry and commerce bureau. Li's son-in-law became deputy secretary of the Communist Youth League, and his daughter rose from typist to police-department junior official. But when more than a dozen cousins and other clan members also gained influential posts, outraged city leaders acted. They sacked Li last month, suspended his party membership, and warned all local party members to take heed of his example...
...50th anniversary of Gershwin's death. George's father, Leatherworker Morris Gershovitz, thought Ira, the oldest of his four children, was the most talented -- until George, nearly two years younger, appropriated the keyboard with an amalgam of brashness and genius. The boy abandoned school at 15 and quickly rose from Manhattan streets to the clamorous offices of song publishers. Sometimes his talent outstripped his ambition. When he auditioned for a job with Irving Berlin, the composer turned him down with some free advice: "Stick to writing your own songs...