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Word: wille (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Replacing Herscu as L.J. Hooker's chief was Sanford Sigoloff, a turnaround king who says he was not surprised to see B. Altman die. "With so many choice properties on the market, like Bloomingdale's and Saks Fifth Avenue, who would want Altman's? I hate to say the store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Raiders on The Run: Debacle on 34th Street | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

As the Roaring Eighties reach an end, the verdict on raiding is becoming clear. Defenders of the practice insist that raiders have made U.S. industry more competitive by forcing bloated companies to slim down and shape up. Yet the towering debt loads piled up during the raider era -- by both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raiders on The Run: The Big Comeuppance | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

In a referendum, 35.6% of voters backed a proposal to abolish the military. The results shocked the country's political and military establishment. Few expected the measure to garner more than 25% of the tally. President Jean- Pascal Delamuraz once called the initiative "an idiocy as big as the Matterhorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland The Swiss Army Gets Knifed | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Even before the referendum, the army began a campaign of self- rehabilitation. It announced that some reforms were being considered, including, at last, alternative service for conscientious objectors and an end to reserve service at 42. After the voting, General Heinz Hasler, who will take command of the military on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland The Swiss Army Gets Knifed | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Newly relaxed censorship restrictions now open the way for distribution of Havel's essays and plays, which are often likened to the absurdist works of Ionesco and Beckett. What Czechoslovaks will discover is a painstaking attention to the elaborate web of falsification that for so long enabled a despised leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: The Conscience of Prague | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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