Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Swamped by a wave of resentment, Johnson rushed last week to reassure the RJR board that he had intended all along to share the newly created wealth with the 15,000 employees who would remain after the breakup. "I wasn't going to take 18% of this company for seven people," Johnson told TIME in his first interview since the buyout offer. "If I'd known it was going to be in the newspapers, I would have said, 'Look, there's going...
Despite the crackdown, thousands of Armenians still gather nearly every Friday in Theater Square, a small plaza tucked behind Yerevan's neoclassical opera house. Around 7 p.m., old women, their heads wrapped in shawls, begin to perch on the steps leading to the theater. Bands of youths, sometimes unruly, wave the orange-red-and-blue Armenian flag, which last flew over the region when it was a free republic in 1920. Later, at about 7:30, a lone bugler approaches a microphone and plays a melancholy tune. When the last note dies, the crowd breaks into a chant: "Artsakh! Artsakh...
...With a wave, he dismisses Jay and greets two Israelis who have come to enlist his aid in a bond drive. Seated at the table, they wait. And wait. First Maxwell wraps a deal for a Moroccan satellite channel. Next his personal secretary, Andrea Martin, 25, a pale blond, appears with a message. Maxwell reads it and thunders, "He is as keen on this idea as if he was bitten by a rattler on the anus." Accustomed to such eruptions, Martin slips away as another button lights. "Latrine rumors!" he shouts into the speaker. "We are going to sue." Suddenly...
Also convicted of treason was the Rev. Thomas Manthatha, an activist in an area called the Vaal Triangle south of Johannesburg where the first wave of unrest erupted in September...
When the gates are up, they will oscillate with the sea. Thus even as they hold back the water, they will allow the sea's wave motion to pass to the lagoon. This will help prevent the gates from making the lagoon more stagnant and polluted. "The technology isn't new, but the combination is," says Franco De Siervo, technical director for the consortium. "There is nothing like it in the world...