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...ugliest buyouts in recent history, Lorenzo purchased the successful Continental Airlines. Within two years, he had dragged the company into bankruptcy. While the case was still in bankruptcy court, Lorenzo used Continental's $50 million in cash reserves to purchase stock' in other companies...
...Atwater bragged that he would turn Willie Horton, a Black convicted murderer who raped a woman during a furlough from a Massachusetts prison, into "a household name." Horton's dark, sinister face now appears in pro-Bush leaflets and television advertisements in an effort to stir up the ugliest and basest fear of whites--a Black man raping a white woman...
...ugliest story of the 22nd Olympics began in a bathroom in the basement of Seoul's track-and-field stadium. There, on Sept. 24, a smallish man with a fabulously muscled body and rage-filled eyes had to perform the indignity of champions. A master of explosive, almost inexplicable starts, he had already propelled his body down the 100-meter track faster than anyone before. Now his legs had ceased churning, he had relinquished the flag of his adopted Canada, which he had waved around the stadium, and the applause for the seemingly guileless sprinter who had dethroned...
Perhaps the ugliest aspect of the Detroit drug scene is the involvement of children. Since courts are generally lenient on young offenders and the juvenile detention facilities are overcrowded, adolescents are ideal runners and street dealers. The number of juveniles arrested in Wayne County jumped from 341 in 1986 to 674 in 1987. "They are easily recruited," says Inspector Rudolfo Thomas, who points out that a youth can make up to $2,000 a day dealing. "There's no way to build any kind of drug-education program that can stop that...
Much of the ugliest architecture is in and around the City, London's financial district. Some of the worst examples: the crude, polygonal Stock Exchange tower; the gloomy, 35-acre concrete jungle of Barbican Center, which includes apartments, shops, offices and a cultural center; and the cheap glass series of towers constituting London Wall. In other London districts examples also abound, many built with public funds. One of the least distinguished is the coarsely slablike headquarters of the Department of the Environment, which may help explain its failure to advance the cause of quality architecture...