Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helped force both sides to talk was TWA Chairman Carl Icahn, better known as a raider than a mediator. In November, Icahn became Texaco's largest shareholder by gaining control of 12.3% of its stock. Then he began a round of shuttle diplomacy between Liedtke and Kinnear. Icahn knew that his holdings, plus a 2% stake in Pennzoil, would surge in value if a deal was struck. Sure enough, as word of the settlement leaked last week, Texaco shares rose 8%, to 38 1/2, while Pennzoil stock jumped...
...Putting the Presidency Back to Work" ((NATION, Nov. 23)), you say the "Iran-contra mess, the stock-market crash and the inability to pick a Supreme Court nominee capable of being confirmed by the Senate have threatened to add Ronald Reagan to the list of 20th century presidential failures." Are you serious? Here is a President who has been able to bring about a domestic- policy revolution: the top tax rate is down from 70% to 28%, inflation has been licked, and the economy has galloped ahead at a record pace for 59 months...
...days of doubt and anxiety following the stock-market crash, U.S. banks got a public vote of confidence as Americans rushed to put more of their money into nice, solid, federally insured savings and checking accounts. That was a far cry from the 1920s and '30s, when frightened investors hustled to their banks and clamored to withdraw their money. But even though angry mobs are rarely battering at their doors, today's banks and thrifts are being rocked by tremors just as dangerous as those of half a century...
Delay, though, could be costly. Warns Nakagama: "You might have another stock-market crash next spring if the Government doesn't do enough on the budget side. After all, if you are running at full employment, then what the hell are you doing with a $150 billion deficit...
...white dinner jacket and purple slacks who is also the minister of music at his church; Debbie the drummer, an ex- prom queen in a strapless gown who exchanges one pink pump for a running shoe, the better to thump her bass drum; Mary the violinist, of stern Scandinavian stock, uptight, humorless and "best remembered locally for her performance as Anita in West Side Story"; and Mike the gentle, wistful synthesizer player who found himself during the 1967 Summer of Love and once played with an acid- rock band called Thursday's Grief. They are terribly earnest, terribly sincere...