Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade you a Ruderman for a Feinstein!" No, this is not a proposed baseball-card swap, but the kind of deal that might occur among children with a religious bent: trading rabbi cards. Since they were introduced last August, more than 400,000 have been sold at 20 cents apiece, or 99 cents for a pack of five. On the back of each 4-in. by 6-in. card, printed in English and Hebrew, are the rabbi's dates of birth and death, the books he published and details about his life...
...dollar comes down from its recent flight of fancy, will the fall be dangerously fast? Only a month ago, the currency was rising so relentlessly that economists were concerned that its strength would worsen the trade deficit by making U.S. exports too costly. That fear seemed misplaced last week as the dollar plunged to a level some 7.5% below its mid-June highs, closing the week at 1.87 deutsche marks...
...about race relations, so the 32-year-old director took his picture to Universal rather than subdue the race riot in his final scene. Fiercely independent, Lee writes, directs and produces his films to prevent others from "meddling." He doesn't have an agent, publicist or manager, but the trade-offs of independence are worth it. "What I get is peace of mind, sanity. I have control over my work. That outweighs everything else," he says. "So I don't get invited to Hollywood parties. So I'm not on the Hollywood circuit. So I don't own a home...
Last week those hopes lay in rubble. Rather than risk losing power, Shamir chose to scuttle his peace diplomacy. He sidestepped a challenge to his leadership by embracing four conditions laid down by hard-line Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon and his allies and plainly designed to be unacceptable to the Palestinians. Most indigestible was a restriction barring the 140,000 Arab residents of East Jerusalem from participating in the proposed elections. Shamir also agreed that Israel would not return any of the occupied territories to "foreign sovereignty," that the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank...
...dimensions of the U.S. offer could fall short of Lech Walesa's aspirations. The leader of the Solidarity trade union movement is expected to ask Bush today when they meet in Gdansk to back a $10 billion program of international help for Poland...