Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those surveyed wanted him to quit. The pressure for Waldheim to leave is expected to increase next month, when an international panel of historians appointed by the Austrian government releases its long-awaited report on his wartime activities. Yet Waldheim insists that he will complete his six-year term. Says he: "I am a President for Austrians, and not for abroad...
...happened during the warm months of summer, the highly toxic oil would have been devastating to the rivers' ecosystems. But in winter, fish are inactive, many birds have migrated south, and most plants are dormant. "The algae that fish feed on will be wiped out in the short term," says Tom Purcell of the Environmental Protection Agency, "but they will easily be replenished from upstream." Then, too, escaped oil will eventually be broken down by naturally occurring bacteria, although the EPA's Ray Germann admits, "No one can tell how long it will take...
...starts with the words themselves: eccentric, after all, carries a distinguished Latin pedigree that refers, quite reasonably, to anything that departs from the center; weird, by comparison, has its mongrel origins in the Old English wyrd, meaning fate or destiny; and the larger, darker forces conjured up by the term -- Macbeth's weird sisters and the like -- are given an extra twist with the slangy, bastard suffix -o. Beneath the linguistic roots, however, we feel the difference on our pulses. The eccentric we generally regard as something of a donny, dotty, harmless type, like the British peer who threw over...
...eliminated nearly 30,000 salaried employees, or about 4% of its work force, and has begun closing down operations at 16 plants. But it has also invested $50 billion to build eight new plants and modernize 19 others. Says GM President Robert Stempel, 54: "That's the long- term approach. Roger could have forced us to concentrate on short-term earnings, but he didn...
...central banks handily accomplished their short-term goal. "They have sent a message: It is no longer a sure thing to bet against the dollar," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of the Goldman, Sachs International investment firm. Intervention, however, can be used only for fine tuning a currency's general direction. Too much intervening can disrupt a country's domestic economy. West Germany in particular is getting weary of issuing so much of its own currency to trade for dollars, a process that can lead to inflation...