Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country where husbands usually have the last word on everything, the Gorbachevs appear to enjoy an unusually equal partnership. "I'm very lucky with Mikhail," Raisa confided to a dinner companion during her 1985 trip to Paris. "We are really friends -- or, if you prefer, we have a great rapport." Mikhail seems to enjoy his wife's feistiness. After his British publisher asked him last April about the possibility of Raisa's writing a book, the General Secretary smiled and said, "My wife is a very independent lady. On this occasion, I will act as a messenger boy. She will...
...sales of Australian wines topped 1 million gallons last year, more than triple the volume of 1986. "People who have experimented with Australian wines have been very happy," says Jon Fredrikson, a San Francisco wine consultant. "They're the new kids on the block being watched very closely. Word gets around...
Despite his dusty disdain for the word detente, Reagan was consecrating a renewed era of just that -- detente. He was reaffirming the central role of arms control as the coin of the realm when the globe's two ideological adversaries sit down to bargain. And he was working toward a new arms deal that would go well beyond the medium-range nuclear treaty that the Senate ratified last week to stabilize nuclear deterrence, not abandon it. Thus Reagan has shown yet again, more emphatically than any of his postwar predecessors, that four decades of accumulated realities have given a continuity...
...word from Moscow is that Anatoli Rybakov's Children of the Arbat is selling like blini on May Day. An initial printing of 500,000 copies sold out faster than the lines could form at the bookshops. As this classic supply-and- demand problem mocked Marxist economics, the cost of the novel rose from the official price of 2.5 rubles ($4.20) to an extortionist 25 rubles on the black market. Plans at Sovietsky Pisatel and Moskovsky Rabochy, the popular author's two publishers, call for at least 2.4 million additional hardbacks in Russian, plus editions in Ukrainian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Estonian...
...halted index-arbitrage for their own accounts. While the firms did so largely as a public relations move to calm investor fears, most of them continue to conduct program trading to satisfy customers whose money they manage. Says Max Chapman, president of Kidder, Peabody: "Speculation is not a dirty word...