Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left early for Reno, Nevada, for a brief visit with Harvard Professor of Ethics emeritus Larry Lounge. Larry's doing pretty well considering the stroke he suffered while freebasing at 100 mph down Sunset Strip with a naked hermaphrodite. He soon plans to open a special ethics school for Democratic presidential hopefuls...
...Reagan for a trip to Los Angeles. The caller, Horst Teltschik, had news that would please the President. The West German National Security Adviser told Carlucci that Chancellor Helmut Kohl was about to announce plans to retire 72 aging Pershing IA missiles tipped with American nuclear warheads. At a stroke, one of the chief obstacles to a long-awaited Soviet-American agreement on intermediate-range nuclear forces seemed to dissolve, and a Washington summit between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev again loomed likely for this fall. Despite a flurry of official denials, reports from Moscow claimed ; that the Soviet leader...
...Kosuke Asano, 63, president of Nippon Light Metal, felt fit enough to walk 20 minutes to his office each morning from a train station. But after returning home from work one day in March, he died of a stroke. His company, Japan's largest aluminum producer, had been battered by cheap imports and was desperately trying to diversify into consumer products like ice cream-making machines...
...Shinzaburo Kato, 59, managing director of Kawasaki Steel, was a top executive in an industry that lost $2 billion last year. A frequent overseas traveler, he died of a stroke in June while on a business trip...
...case rests principally on an irresistible plot. Rusty Sabich, 39, is the chief deputy prosecutor of Kindle County, somewhere in the Middle West. Raymond Horgan, his boss and mentor for the past twelve years, faces a re- election battle undermined by a stroke of bad news. A little less than three weeks before the voting, Carolyn Polhemus, a member of Horgan's staff and Rusty's colleague, has been found murdered in gruesome, suggestive circumstances: nude, bound, apparently raped. Horgan's political opponents create a furor, and the local papers and TV stations chime in: if brutal crime can reach...