Word: steven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After negotiations by telephone with the bandit, identified as Steven Livaditis, 22, a fugitive from robbery charges in Las Vegas, police--as yet unaware of the murdered hostages--were confident that he was going to surrender. In the darkness, Livaditis decided to run for it, shielding himself with three hostages and a drape. Police lobbed concussion grenades that knocked the group to the ground, thwarting the escape. When one man separated from the others and pointed back toward them, a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy shot and killed him. The dead man, however, was not the gunman; Livaditis...
...fewer brides but bigger weddings," he says. "People are bringing that money out of cubbyholes. A mother with holes in her sneakers will pull $1,000 out of her brassiere and say, 'Everything is the best for my daughter.' " Barbara Ferris, 30, whose May 24 Los Angeles wedding to Steven O'Neill was followed by a reception for "300 of our most intimate friends," explains, "When it boils down to a choice between money and friends, you go into debt...
...Steven R. Singer, former press secretary for two U.S. Representatives and for a Connecticut public interest organization, will handle press inquiries into the K-School until after the fall celebration. Earlier this month Singer graduated from the K-School's Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program...
...Croll, 38, is "backing the right people." So far, he has proved to be remarkably good at that. A managing partner of Boston's TA Associates, a firm that currently handles more than $500 million in venture funds, Croll teamed up in 1979 with a young Boston entrepreneur named Steven Dodge, who wanted to make a mark in the cable-television industry. With TA's money and strategic guidance, Dodge became founder and chairman of American Cablesystems, an enterprise now worth more than $200 million. For his part, Croll became the communications specialist within TA. Of the 45 fledgling companies...
...into the unknown." After the astounding success of Star Wars, his special-effects group, dubbed Industrial Light & Magic, relocated in San Rafael, Calif., just north of San Francisco, and became a permanent operation. ILM devised the special effects not just for Lucas' three Star Wars epics, but for such Steven Spielberg hits as E.T., Poltergeist and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now ILM's handiwork seems to be everywhere. The company created the effects for six of last year's releases, among them Cocoon (for which ILM technicians won their seventh visual-effects Oscar), Back to the Future, Young Sherlock...