Word: diamond
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only memorable scene in the film is Billy Crystal's hilarious portrayal of Miracle Max, the wizard who has been fired from his royal position. Max helps bring the movie's hero back from the dead with a chocolate-covered pill, but Crystal's cameo is a diamond which sparkles in an otherwise unremarkable film...
Perhaps the real core of intern networking comes during the annual softball games. While senatorial staffs are busy battling each other out on the diamond, experienced interns are busy lining up runningmates on the bench...
...Country Club, one of the best-known American gambling and entertainment centers, will soon go to its new Japanese owner. The latest hit recording by Country Singer Kenny Rogers is a foreign-owned product; his record label, RCA, is now West German property. And what about breakfast (or a diamond ring) at Tiffany, or drinks in the literarefied atmosphere of Manhattan's Algonquin hotel? Those vintage landmark buildings are now Japanese possessions...
Like cocaine, quality emeralds are big and dangerous business in Colombia. The country produces no less than 90% of the world's supply of the precious green stones. Just as plentiful is the bloodshed caused by territorial fights among rival clans of guaqueros. Unlike the diamond-mining industry, which is tightly controlled by the South African cartel, De Beers Consolidated Mines, the Colombian emerald business is wide open. Though the government grants mining rights to production companies and nominally regulates the industry, the vast majority of emeralds are brought to market by independent, unregulated guaqueros. "There are no economic laws...
...would say later, in a statement that was both apologetic and defiant. "I was stubborn in my pursuit of a policy that went astray." It was a speech that satisfied neither friends nor enemies. But it was one that was inside the President as simple and pure as a diamond and had to come out, audience acceptance or not. "Well," he told TIME earlier in the day, his nose still scarred and red from his skin-cancer operation, "I'll be sitting at the same desk, so I can always duck...