Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employee at Baskin Robbins ice cream in the Square said that business was at a record high, better even than during the summer high season. "During this season, we are lucky if we sell 200 cones a day. But today, it looks like we'll break 900," he said...
...State Department, officials are privately predicting that Elliott Abrams, the intensely committed Assistant Secretary of State who has served as the point man in the contra crusade, will be gone by summer. The report shows that his involvement in Ollie North's private contra-supply network was far greater than he had previously testified. Says one source close to Abrams: "There is no way Elliott can survive this." The contra-aid program will have similar problems surviving, even though it makes little sense to tie its fate to the Iranian scandal...
...circumstances were similar: the White House was embroiled in scandal and a presidency tottered on the brink of disaster. At the Senate Watergate Committee hearings during the summer of 1973, an earnest Republican lawmaker from Tennessee became famous when he framed the essential question concerning Richard Nixon: "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" The answer led to Nixon's downfall...
...fully support the Gorbachev policy are Hungary and Poland. For years, Hungary has been experimenting with ways of combining socialism and private enterprise and has a relatively open society. While the economy has been in a slump of late, Gorbachev liked what he saw when he visited Budapest last summer and asked for more of the same, at a faster pace. This message encourages the cadre of younger leaders awaiting the departure of Party Leader Janos Kadar, 74, who has run the country since 1956. "The feeling is that it's time for the old man to go, and some...
...scandal could also have serious political repercussions for the financial community's traditional allies in the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who must call national elections by the summer of 1988. "There's bound to be political fallout," says a prominent London banker. "The muck will be raked by the media and the opposition parties, and some of it will stick." Though no government official has been implicated, Roy Hattersley, deputy leader of the opposition Labor Party, has charged that support for the City's "sleazy undercurrent of corruption is the inevitable extension of Tory economic philosophy...