Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worries that could cloud Wall Street's prospects. Leading the list are the twin menaces, huge budget and trade deficits. The trade gap weakens the U.S. economy by diverting American dollars abroad, and the enormous borrowing needed to finance the budget shortfall threatens to push interest rates higher and stunt growth. Says Hugh Johnson, a portfolio strategist for First Albany, a securities brokerage firm: "People went to sleep about the deficit, but they will probably wake up to it this year." Johnson is also skeptical of the current wave of bullish sentiment: "When the prevailing view is one of near...
Ward recognizes that most cyclists also disobey traffic rules. "A lot of them are just inviting accident. For the most part, they tend to run red lights and ride down one-way streets the wrong way," he says, adding that drivers' legitimate expectations for cyclists to "pull some ridiculous stunt" further compounds the problem. "They'll tend to either give you a wide berth, speed up past you or just honk their horns," he says...
...seemed a simple enough stunt, so simple that Actress Kate Nelligan, 33, was determined to run the explosive course herself. On location in Spain, the actress was playing the title role in Eleni, the film of Nicholas Gage's book about his Greek mother (she was executed in 1948 by Communist rebels who had occupied her village after World War II). In the scene simulating an artillery attack by government forces, Nelligan "decided to liven it up with some clever falls I devised for myself, including somersaults when the mines and bullets were near misses." By the time...
When the reckless Sanjay died in the crash of his stunt plane on a hot summer day four years ago, Rajiv became the crown prince. He quit his pilot's job, entered politics, and soon won his brother's parliamentary seat. Named a general secretary of the Congress (I) Party in February 1983, he made a reputation for himself as a quiet-spoken reformer determined to bring new life and leadership to a largely corrupt and ineffectual machine, leading some Indians to refer to him as Mr. Clean...
Less than six months after taking a seat in Parliament in 1980, Sanjay took up a plane that he was unqualified to fly, attempted a daredevil stunt too low and crashed to his death...