Word: ten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today, while fuel costs are going down. As the cash purchase demonstrated, Trump has the capital to expand and improve service in ways that Lorenzo could not. He is also likely to be spared the crippling labor disputes that have dogged Lorenzo and prior owners for the past ten years. Lorenzo has been wrestling with his unions in an effort to cut costs, and the infusion of cash is likely to strengthen his hand...
...American out of 10,000 would know who Sandino was," he says, referring to the Nicaraguan guerrilla leader who in the late 1920s and early 1930s defiantly resisted U.S. intervention in his country and whose name was appropriated by Nicaragua's currently reigning Sandinistas. "Yet nine out of ten Latins know who George Washington...
...campaign. Never in the 1988 campaign does one see anything like the public passion that was displayed, for both candidates, during 1960. Kennedy had his "jumpers" -- females who forested the parade routes, who swooned and leaped and shrieked. "It was flat-out every day and most of the night, ten or 15 days at a time without a day off," remembers Ted Sorensen. "Today it feels more like a missile exchange instead of war in the trenches. Kennedy would saturate a state. He'd do ten or 15 events a day. Now they do two, usually timed carefully to make...
Egypt, Morocco and Mexico provided temporary havens, but as the Pahlavis were forced to move on, they increasingly found themselves in a dog-eat-Shah world. Ten cramped weeks in the Bahamas cost them an extortionate $1.2 million. Panama's late Omar Torrijos extended his hospitality and then made passes at the Queen...
...reader at North Hollywood High School, alma mater of Alan Ladd and Farley Granger, she graduated at 15 and made for the University of Chicago. (She would later do graduate work at Harvard and Oxford.) At 17 she married sociologist Philip Rieff, then a 28-year-old instructor, just ten days after she met him. The marriage, which lasted seven years, was her first and last. It produced a son, David, now 36, an editor and writer in Manhattan and another of his mother's consuming passions...