Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needs no pillow to pad his belly, no rouge to redden his cheeks. And even in the heated subway, a morning's worth of icicles make his department-store beard seem real to the touch...
...women feel threatened, then something has to be done. We have a lot of the subjectivity--you're down at Mather, the shuttles have stopped running, you don't have money for a taxi, what do you do?" Blais asks. "The University isn't can't be, in touch with that kind of subjectivity...
When he burst upon the takeover scene in the early 1980s, Asher Edelman seemed to have a magic touch. Bright, brash and hyperconfident, he reaped more than $40 million in instant profits for himself and his investors by raiding and liquidating two dreary companies: Management Assistance, a computer maker, and Canal-Randolph, a real estate firm. Suddenly superrich, the Bard College graduate, reared on Long Island, N.Y., bought fashionable residences from Sun Valley to Switzerland, a 100-ft. yacht, a personal jet and a modern-art collection today rumored to be worth $100 million...
Because Edelman feels that U.S. attitudes toward raiders have become too hostile, he now prefers to stalk European game. Yet his magic touch is fading. In June, Edelman made a failed bid for Storehouse PLC, a British retailing giant. Since then Storehouse's profits and stock price have plunged, wiping out some 35% of the value of Edelman's stake...
...Moscow. The participants responded to developments concocted by "control teams" behind the scenes. Koppel headed the team in Washington, and TIME editor at large Strobe Talbott supervised the Soviet operation at the headquarters of the State Committee for Television and Radio in Moscow. Koppel and Talbott kept in constant touch over an open telephone line. They were assisted by experts who helped improvise minicrises as the scenario unfolded, translated "hot-line" messages that flashed back and forth between the capitals by fax, and doubled as supporting actors when the stars demanded an on-camera briefing...