Word: times
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Streetbeat"--whose removal has provoked many letters calling for its reinstatement--will be off the air until January, when the station chiefs reevaluate all their programming, Peters said. Until then, the station will fill the Streetbeat time slot with Harvard Hockey games and a reggae program...
...view most of the claims had been paid out. Tehran wanted the balance, now about $820 million, that remained of the $1.4 billion the account originally held. In 1987 the Reagan Administration had unsuccessfully resisted a similar $500 million claim by Iran against a different account. This time the Bush Administration responded by dispatching Sofaer to the Hague. As part of the deal that was eventually reached, Iran agreed that $243 million from the account will be transferred to a third fund, covering claims against Iran by individual American citizens and corporations...
...black-controlled broadcasting company. He followed up by disclosing that Dinkins had not listed on required financial-disclosure forms a vacation trip to France paid for in part by a close friend. Though Dinkins provided plausible explanations for the lapses, the explanations were slow in coming. With more time, Giuliani might have been able to capitalize on his reputation as one of the nation's toughest lawmen. When the candidates squared off in televised debates, Dinkins complained that Giuliani was behaving more like a prosecutor than a mayor. Giuliani fired back, "I think the people of this town want...
...replay of the famous 1987 saga of the garbage scow that couldn't find a home -- only worse. This time the carrier is a 61-car train. On board: 5,000 tons of sewage sludge, most of it treated human waste. It is nothing to sniff at. In fact, nobody wants...
...expected election night to be a Maalox Moment. All the published pre-election surveys had shown Wilder leading his Republican rival J. Marshall Coleman by margins of 4% to 15%. Even an initial television exit poll had anointed Wilder with a 10 percentage-point triumph. But by the time Wilder felt comfortable enough to declare victory, his razor-thin lead had stabilized about where it would end up: just 6,582 votes out of a record 1.78 million ballots cast. That was enough, however, for Virginia's Governor-elect to declare proudly, "As a boy, when I would read about...