Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assigned, at 21, to take charge of logistics at a base in West Germany, with 60 German civilians working under him. He rose to the rank of captain, then went to Korea as commandant of a school, where he trained Korean soldiers to work with the U.S. Army. "I learned to be comfortable taking command," he says. Indeed, those who have been with him in political or lobbying efforts say he is the type people turn to when a decision needs to be made...
...Some say the Fed adopted monetarism and decided to target control of the nation's money supply in order to keep hands off interest rates and duck the inevitable political criticism as rates rose...
...largest card trick -- will be telecast, for the first time ever, in 3-D. Two commercials for diet Coke, one starring British singer George Michael, will also pop out at viewers in 3-D. A similar gimmick was tried early this month on three Fox stations during the Rose Parade, but this marks its network-TV debut...
...become a figure of legend, a figure immortalized, if that is the word, in Judith Krantz's I'll Take Manhattan? "Donald Trump, the brilliant, ambitious young real estate man whom even his enemies had to admit was disarmingly unaffected," Krantz wrote with her endearing uncertainty about personal pronouns, "rose to meet Maxi...
...earth, Hirohito was the last survivor of the leaders of the World War II era. He occupied the Chrysanthemum Throne longer than any of his recorded predecessors. During his 62 years as Emperor, ( Hirohito presided over a nation that soared to heights of military arrogance, plummeted catastrophically and rose again to become a formidable industrial power. Through it all, the slight, stooped Hirohito retained an unassuming tranquillity. As Japan's national television network flashed the words TENNO- HEIKA HOGYO (the Emperor passes away) last Saturday, some of the country's 122 million citizens wept, some prayed, some affected disinterest...