Word: way
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attended three high schools and studied for a year at a Franciscan seminary, where his desire to become a priest eventually gave way before his love of women. By his senior year he was in Glen Ridge, N.J., where a knee injury dislodged him from the school wrestling team. He was miserable. Then he auditioned for the Nathan Detroit role in Guys and Dolls and got the part. "It was the first thing in my life for a long, long time that I felt excited about," Cruise says. He announced to his family that he was going...
...Group chief Howard Stringer insists that the big sporting events, along with a push for more adventurous programming, will help recapture an audience that has grown rather jaded. "You cannot anymore launch shows that simply repeat yesterday's viewing patterns," says Stringer. "That's something we learned the hard way this year." Any other lessons will have to be learned quickly by Sagansky, the man about to fill the toughest job in network television...
...Rodriguez Gacha hooked up with Pablo Escobar and the then fledgling Medellin cartel. Gradually he worked his way up to midlevel cocaine dealer, pioneering new routes through Mexico and into the U.S. This, coupled with his fascination for bandito folklore, earned him the nickname El Mexicano. Through the years he financed the import of expensive foreign technology to serve the cartel's needs, and he has been linked to paramilitary death squads...
...smartest way to keep a U.S. hand in Europe, Baker reasoned, is to adapt existing international groups to the new reality. The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, a 35-member body that includes the two superpowers, has met periodically since it produced the 1975 Helsinki agreement, which ratified postwar borders and set minimum human-rights standards. But a single country's veto blocks decisions there, making it an awkward vehicle for asserting U.S. leadership in Europe. The European Community, on its part, cannot accept the U.S. as a member. That leaves NATO, where the U.S. has long been...
During dinner, McGuane sips nonalcoholic beer and talks about an upcoming cutting-horse competition in Billings. Cutting, a highly stylized ritual in which a horse and rider "work" a cow in much the same way a defensive guard tries to block a basketball, is a dear topic for the McGuanes. They also happen to be formidably good at it. Laurie is Montana's defending cutting- horse champion, Tom was No. 1 the year before, and the two are the leading contenders for the 1989 trophy. "We take turns," Laurie laughs...