Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fend off corporate raiders who were swarming around the company, had stirred widespread unhappiness with Wyman and helped to bring Tisch to power in the first place. But the chops did not stop with Wyman's departure. Far from it. It was easy enough to explain a wave of 700 firings that had begun in July as the result of an austerity plan approved before the outgoing chairman's downfall. But then in October came 400 more, decreed by Tisch, followed by an additional 100 in November. The firings have hit every level, but the highest-ranking casualties...
...level executive: "Half the people here curse Tisch." A television producer at the Manhattan headquarters known as Black Rock described employee morale as "pulverized with fear." Staffers soon coined a bitter name for the layoffs: to be fired was to be "tisched." In the past few weeks, as the wave of firings seems to have again subsided -- at least for a time -- the mood at CBS has become quietly resigned. Says one employee: "The feeling here is follow the rules, do your job, don't make waves...
...still too early to know whether the contras will drown in the tidal wave of revelations currently washing over the White House. Certainly it is unwise to write off an army that has repeatedly shown staying power, if not fighting prowess. Indeed, in Nicaragua, there is talk that Honduras' recent attacks were a diversionary tactic to allow the contras to infiltrate Nicaragua in time for a spectacular holiday attack. In Honduras, however, the word is that the contras' fireworks will not begin until the end of January. Whenever the contras finally do resume their war, the pyrotechnics will have...
Despite the furor at home and abroad, Pretoria seemed determined to press forward with the new restrictions. At week's end the government said it had detained several activists, including union members and at least one journalist, allegedly to prevent a wave of violence planned by the outlawed African National Congress. But if South African officials believe their country's race problems will disappear if a free press is unable to report them, they are only confusing the messenger with the message -- and may be underestimating their own people. As the Boston Globe observed last week, "Despots throughout history have...
This weekend, Zwelakhe Sisulu, a fellow from 1984-1985, was arrested by South African security forces during a sweeping new wave of round-ups of journalists, opposition and union leaders and community activists...