Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Currently serving a two-year term in the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., Levine detailed for the court a spending spree that lasted from 1980 until his arrest last year. He paid $450,000 to renovate his eight-room Park Avenue apartment and bought his wife a $15,750 diamond necklace. What about the money unaccounted for? Levine says he lost part of it, about $200,000, while gambling during 27 vacations in the Bahamas. His luck, it seems, began to run out long before investigators caught up with...
...Administration may soon ask Congress to approve long-term aid to the contras of perhaps $150 million over 18 months, up from the $100 million narrowly okayed last fall for fiscal 1987. That would keep the rebels in beans and bullets until Ronald Reagan leaves office...
Holmes a Court's accumulation of Texaco's stock may be nothing more than a shrewd gamble on the firm's long-term health and its ability to reach a settlement with Pennzoil. Looking at the company's substantial oil and gas reserves and other holdings, most financial analysts think that Texaco's shares are severely undervalued at last week's closing price of 45 1/8. In the past, Holmes a Court has ended raids on target firms when the price was right. Last August, for example, he said he was seeking a 15% stake in USX. Then, as takeover...
...taking advantage of fog that blanketed the coast, the ship's acting skipper, Castor Lasalle, had managed to ease the Amelie inshore. After pleading guilty to violating immigration laws, Nygren was sentenced to a year in jail and Singh to three months. Lasalle got a 30-day jail term...
...that sense, a war? Will the struggle that has bifurcated the world for the past 40 years continue with the same crusading fervor for the next 40? Not necessarily. The cold war has never been a stable phenomenon. Its intensity has waxed and waned over the years. The very term, as traditionally defined, now seems dated. New political and economic forces have emerged; a different set of international challenges has arisen. The Marxist model has lost much of its allure around the globe...