Word: wallful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Advertisers, who know a trendy location when they see one, are flocking to / Berlin. The Wall has become a potent new symbol in a plethora of TV commercials celebrating its opening. Pepsi-Cola filmed an ad that features a young woman handing a flower to a border guard. Quintessence, a Chicago cosmetics firm, taped a 30-second corporate ad depicting a family reunion at the Brandenburg Gate. AT&T interviewed people at the Wall who told how they phoned friends when it opened...
After more than two troubled years as the Government's top savings and loan regulator, M. Danny Wall fell victim to the nation's spreading S&L scandal. The clamor for his ouster mounted last month after lower-ranking bank examiners told Congress that Wall had unduly delayed for 21 months a Government takeover of high-flying financier Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings & Loan Association, whose collapse could cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. Last week Wall finally bowed to the pressure and resigned as director of the Office of Thrift Supervision. He had been victimized, Wall complained, by "simplistic efforts...
...Reagan tax breaks weighted in favor of the rich, the cuts in social welfare programs, the statistics on the growing inequality of income distribution in the U.S. and the routine tales of Wall Street corruption defined, for many Americans, the ethos of the 1980s...
Financial woes are not the raiders' only big headache. Their past attacks have led U.S. companies to fortify anti-takeover defenses, making it harder for new raids to succeed. And the long Wall Street bull market has raised stock prices, leaving fewer targets for bargain-hunting buccaneers...
...Many voters just thought of the opening of the Berlin Wall. They thought, 'O.K., we can get rid of arms because there's no danger,' " suggests Kurt Spillmann, a professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. But the willingness of so many Swiss to vote, in effect, against the army indicates a disaffection that would once have been unimaginable...