Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Skinner rushed for a second touch-down with four minutes left in the fourth quarter to put the game out of reach...
...points. Last week's drop-off rekindled fears that an era of heedless borrowing by corporations and the Federal Government might finally be coming to grief. At the very least, the rout reminded investors that the stock market is a volatile place where fortunes can vanish at the touch of a computer key. After one frantic hour of selling conducted to a large extent by program trades, nearly $200 billion of stock values were wiped out last week...
...Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, has earned more than $300 million as the writer-producer of a TV sitcom called Al and Sal. Retired at age 51 in the mansion he has built on an isolated hill in Texas, he dreams of writing a novel and keeps in touch by telephone with a network of glamorous actresses scattered about the globe. One morning he receives a call and hears an unfamiliar female voice: "Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy...
...seemed that all Vic had to do was to talk to somebody and he could improve their game," Kramer recalls. Word about Braden's magic touch spread; soon people were signing up as much as two years in advance for his half-hour individual lessons, which usually drew an appreciative nonpaying audience of local toads. He also took time to organize a class of blind children, calling out numbers to help them aim their racquets at machine-propelled balls. "Golly," says Braden, "when the kids hit the ball, I was more thrilled than they were." It was at Rolling Hills...
...block the return of the body of Ferdinand Marcos, public outrage was growing over its lack of compassion. Critics across the political spectrum have called President Corazon Aquino's ban "un-Filipino." The government claimed that if Imelda Marcos was allowed to bring her husband home, his funeral might touch off disturbances that could threaten the country's economic recovery. Aquino knows the power of a funeral: her political career was ignited when massive crowds turned out for the 1983 burial of her husband Ninoy, assassinated while being escorted by Marcos' soldiers...