Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iraqi helicopter floats in the valley below Mount Hazar Kanian, suspended in the morning light. Then it is gone, and a plume of rich, black smoke rises from the trees below. Young Iranian soldiers smile and wave from open trucks snaking up Kurdistan's dusty mountain roads toward the Iraqi front. "Down with Israel!" they chant. "Down with Russia! Down with America!" Some are not old enough to shave, but no matter. They are basij, the volunteers to whom the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has promised eternal bliss should they fall in battle. They beam at the soft thud...
...harried by competition, given new power by computers, tempted by electronic flows of cash, and possessed of a strong appetite for status symbols. Result: what began as the decade of the entrepreneur is fast becoming the age of the pinstriped outlaw, his prodigal twin. The white-collar crime wave is already spurring an antibusiness backlash, which could lead to a fresh dose of the regulations from which many industries have only recently won freedom. Says Michigan Democrat John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee: "I think the pressures on honest men have grown manifold, and they...
Five months ago Nike had some new shoes. All it needed was a way to launch them. First came a tag line: "Revolution in Motion." Then, according to Kevin Brown, Nike's director of corporate communications, "another brain wave struck -- using the Beatles classic Revolution, music that best epitomizes the concept, to help make our point...
...demonstrations by students in Cape Town and Johannesburg. At the University of Cape Town, where some 300 white, black and mixed-race students gathered to protest the commando raid, police used tear gas, leather whips and bird shot to break up the meeting. On May Day, fearing another wave of unrest, the government banned rallies called by 20 black unions...
Quantum's great leap in profits began with the move upward by the Dow from a level in the mid-1300s in August 1985. Soros caught the market wave by investing heavily not only in U.S. stocks but also in very volatile stock- index and currency futures. These can multiply returns many times over, or, conversely, produce huge losses. Now the largest so-called hedge fund, Quantum uses its stock and bond portfolio as collateral to buy more stocks and securities...