Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to police, Neill made reservations for a trip to San Francisco on the day before the robbery, while Johnson bought a handgun. An hour after the robbery, the two men flew to California, paying $1,400 in cash for their tickets. In San Francisco, Neill and Johnson hired a limousine driver to take them on a tour of the city, stopping in expensive restaurants and shops along...
...been scheduled for Friday evening at the House of Trade Unions, the hall where Soviet dignitaries traditionally lie in state. Questioned by a Western reporter, an elderly door attendant angrily said that Ustinov had died. Official confirmation came several hours later from Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended his trip to Britain a day early in order to return to Moscow. "We have had a great and tragic loss," Gorbachev explained before leaving Edinburgh. "Marshal Ustinov, our old friend and comrade-in-arms, has passed away...
Encouraged by Mulroney's initial moves, the Reagan Administration is giving him the benefit of the doubt. U.S. relations with Canada will inevitably become clearer following President Reagan's planned trip to Quebec in March, a few weeks before the Mulroney government's new budget and a number of important policy papers are unveiled. "We're watching as events unfold, and we're encouraged," said a U.S. official. It seems unlikely that any Canadian government could stimulate the economy much while facing a budget deficit of $26.5 billion, which is even higher than this year...
Even before Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, the fast-rising heir apparent in the Kremlin, touched down last Saturday at London's Heathrow Airport, British officials were busy trying to downplay the importance of his eight-day official visit. The British feared that the trip would focus too much Western attention on his status as the most likely successor to Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko. That in turn might weaken Gorbachev's chances and strengthen those of his chief rival for the job, Grigori Romanov, 61, a fellow Politburo member widely considered to be a dogmatic hardliner. Nonetheless, Prime Minister Margaret...
...question and acknowledge that his firm is going to agree to a merger tomorrow, he would be in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Public figures can evade too: "I think 'No comment' is a splendid expression," said Churchill after learning it on a trip to the U.S. "I am using it again and again...