Word: spun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WORLD: Amid mass resignations and arrests, has the revolt against Communism in the East bloc spun out of control...
...took it over in 1985, the company has gone through three presidents and $135 million in losses. Yet he has reaped millions of dollars in personal fees by aggressively playing the stock market with Datapoint's cash. Another Edelman-controlled firm, Intelogic Trace, a computer-servicing business that was spun off from Datapoint in 1985, has seen its annual profits plummet from $20 million in that year to $179,000 in fiscal...
...return on a full moon -- that's why the spectral energy is gathering ^ . . ."). But the show delivers a stronger dose of pure horror than anything else on TV. In the season's two-hour premiere episode, Lucifer tried to take over a convent in France. Before the overstuffed plot spun out of control, there were some startling set pieces: a possessed nun literally climbing the walls and patients in a mental ward going wild and murdering the staff. The show also managed to write one of its regular characters out of the series in possibly the screwiest manner...
...funds permit. A museum of the completed pieces has drawn 10,000 visitors during the current holy days. In addition to such items as trumpets, lyres and lots, the institute is preparing vestments for the priests-in-waiting. According to Scripture, the clothing must be painstakingly made with flax spun by hand into six-stranded threads...
Campeau had created problems for himself at a headlong pace. Even as he scooped up retailers, Campeau made plans to build dozens of big department stores. While he spun off such acquisitions as Brooks Brothers and Bonwit Teller to pay part of his $11 billion debt, he insisted that his remaining chains could churn out enough cash to make interest payments, finance expansion and yield profits as well. Instead, the cash registers rang slowly as the retailing industry suffered from stagnant consumer spending...