Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million. Trump, he charged, had misled stockholders about the company's value and breached his fiduciary responsibility by not considering a more attractive offer. "It's a real war," says Marvin B. Roffman, a senior security analyst for the Janney Montgomery Scott investment firm. "Griffin is dead serious...
...world's longest river for irrigation, electric power, drinking water and transportation. Now, after a decade of drought that has left parts of central Africa on the brink of starvation, the Nile is running perilously low. For the first time since the Aswan High Dam was finished in 1970, serious shortages of water and hydroelectric power threaten Egypt...
...virtually halted the relief program in Tigre. Regional warehouses are mostly empty because roads are too dangerous for trucks to navigate or have been closed by the government. Says an official of the International Committee of the Red Cross: "In a month or two, we will be in a serious famine situation. It will be really dramatic...
...other elements of the Iran-contra scandal will continue to play out even as the Reagan Administration is eclipsed by the election campaign. Last year public opinion was divided about whether the Iran-contra mess was a political dispute or a serious abuse of power. The charges against North and his associates mean that a jury must decide whether this national hero, as Reagan called him, is simply a criminal. North and Poindexter could be standing trial on Election Day, and the evidence against them -- as well as the suspicion that the President will pardon them -- could play a pivotal...
...attention was focused on the indictment of Panama's Manuel Antonio Noriega on drug-related charges. The Canal makes Panama intrinsically more important than Nicaragua to American interests. Yet there too Washington has been embarrassed by its past policies: until evidence of Noriega's drug trafficking became too serious to ignore, the general had been a valued CIA asset. Last week the Administration continued to squeeze Panama's economy in an effort to oust Noriega, who hung on precariously despite widespread strikes, rioting and a coup attempt...