Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City's Equitable Building, becoming the first Japanese securities firm with an overseas branch. That inspired proud lines in a 1929 company song: "The Japanese flag is hoisted in the morning breeze on Wall Street/ And the Statue of Liberty smiles upon/ Our truly global power." After World War II, Nomura was the first Japanese securities company to return to New York with an independent office, which opened at 61 Broadway in 1953. Nomura was also the first Japanese firm to open a securities branch in China (1982) and to obtain a seat on the London Stock Exchange...
...relationship between the teenage daughter of a poor British clergyman and the aristocratic family she is sent to join, as something between servant and family member, during the fateful summer of 1936. Among the moneyed Hallams, who are paradigms of noblesse oblige and liberal rectitude, the Spanish Civil War has become a daily obsession, and the eventuality of a broader war in Europe is an accepted fact. This political awareness, and their pacifist response, makes the Hallams national celebrities but slowly turns them into village pariahs. The ghostly bones of the title are used by local toughs in a campaign...
...oddest of the season's worthwhile offerings, or at least the hardest to explain, are William Marshall's War Machine (Mysterious Press; 220 pages; $15.95) and Reginald Hill's Underworld (Scribner's; 280 pages; $14.95). Marshall's 15 weird suspense novels are all set in either the Philippines or, as in this case, Hong Kong and feature seemingly supernatural events that turn out to have logical, if not precisely rational, origins. He has savage fun with police procedure, the culture clashes of East and West and the intrusive effects of each place's multinational colonial history. In War Machine, someone...
...wake of Iran's surprise announcement two weeks ago that it would agree to a cease-fire, Iraq embarked on a campaign designed to maximize its position in a postwar era. By attempting to gain more leverage in negotiations, however, Baghdad risked encouraging Tehran to return to war...
...into Iranian territory and pulled back to their side of the border. By Baghdad's admission, the attacks were mounted to capture enemy soldiers for use as bargaining chips in an eventual prisoner swap with Iran. Iraq claimed the raids netted 12,000 new captives, bringing its prisoner-of-war total to 35,000, still well short of the 50,000 Iraqis held in Iran...