Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...producing the spectacle and an additional $7.5 million renovating its showcase, the Broadway Theater. With one more musical scheduled before the season ends May 1--Fosse's own revival of his 1966 hit Sweet Charity, starring Debbie Allen--Big Deal looked like everybody's best prospect for a big winner...
...logic prevailed, Fao would be awarded not to the winner but to the loser of the struggle for this wet, muddy wasteland. Heavy trucks carrying Iraqi soldiers and supplies to the front rumble over roads running along levees, above the marshy terrain approaching Fao. The Iranians, using flat-bottomed boats with powerful outboard engines, roar across the blue-green waters of the gulf to deliver ammunition and reinforcements, who bring the latest , exhortations of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...Gores, a three-time winner of the Edgar award, is best known for his hard- boiled thrillers. His semibiographical novel Hammett became a film produced by Francis Coppola and helped shift his career toward scriptwriting, notably for such TV series as Kojak and Magnum, P.I. Gores' novel Come Morning, his first in eight years, displays a heightened visual awareness: it blends precise research into prison life, the gem market and rock climbing with outlandishly risky escapades, including a scene in which the hero circumvents a security system by mounting an elevator cable and skittering along a momentarily inactive high-tension...
...contrast to how it fared in the difficult decade of the 1970s, the U.S. now stands as a winner in the energy game. Even a brief era of low-cost oil will give the country an opportunity to enhance American prosperity without fearing the old nemesis of inflation. Yet in enjoying this good-times atmosphere, the U.S. cannot afford to forget the tough lessons of the past. It should aim to preserve its oil independence so that the economy can keep cruising down the road instead of sputtering to the curb once again...
...specific target of the rising Korean protest is an electoral system under which the country's 41 million people choose more than 5,000 electors, who in turn select a President. Chun has suggested that the 1988 elections be held on schedule in the traditional fashion. The winner could then oversee a constitutional reform and direct elections in 1989. His opponents, who fear that Chun's hand-picked successor may renege on such an agreement, want constitutional reform now. Under pressure from Washington, Chun finally allowed the opposition to organize rallies to collect signatures of support for the proposed reform...