Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capriciously. Today 37 states have death-penalty laws, and since 1976, 69 condemned men and one woman have been electrocuted, gassed, shot or given lethal injections. With almost 1,900 others awaiting execution, prisoners' attorneys have presented one legal objection after another to the high court, most without success. Last week, in what may prove to be their final major challenge, opponents of capital punishment were handed a stunning defeat...
...These two attractive actors have confronted the "cute" factor in different ways. Broderick goes off-Broadway between film gigs and appears eager to tackle adult roles that will challenge him and his fans. Fox, though, seems to enjoy being a boy. His new movie hit, The Secret of My Success, finds him still comfortable in his old haberdashery: straitjacket and elfin grin...
Then in 1867 somebody discovered a diamond near the Orange River. "Gentlemen," said the British Colonial Secretary as he inspected one of the earliest of these discoveries, "this is the rock on which the future success of South Africa will be built." Indeed, a quarter of a billion carats were to be dug out in the next century. Since the diamonds lay in Afrikaner lands, the British simply declared that they were annexing those lands, and British miners came pouring in. Two decades later rich deposits of gold were discovered in the Transvaal. Still more Britons and other foreigners came...
...forced her $20,000 into debt. "I thought it was going to be a restriction on my independence," she recalls. Instead, she was touched when her father installed a desk and phone in the basement so she would have a private study. The Sanchez family too has made a success of the arrangement. Says Lucy Sanchez: "Family is family, and we believe and act on that." But for others, the setup proves too difficult. Michelle Del Turco, 24, of Englewood, Colo., a Denver suburb, has been home three times -- and left three times. "What I considered a social drink...
...Soviet entrepreneurs are discovering that free enterprise does not guarantee success. An elderly Moscow woman who had a 50-ruble ($75) monthly pension decided to sell hand-embroidered nightgowns, and duly registered with the authorities. But none of her nightgowns sold when she took them to the market, despite days spent standing in the cold. Nevertheless, authorities canceled her meager monthly pension...