Word: accession
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million-a-year dairy business near Boston that his family has run for more than a half-century. His local bank, which had promised to add $3 million to the firm's $15 million line of credit, suddenly backed out and warned him that he would soon lose access to the original $15 million. That sent Pappathanasi on a frantic dash for cash that ended when he found banks in New York City and London that were willing to lend. Says he: "I didn't sleep for two months chasing these loans...
Mikhail Gorbachev makes so much news that for the past five years he has been almost a daily staple of the front pages and nightly broadcasts. Exclusive access is another matter: since taking office, he has given only a handful of interviews to American journalists. The first was to TIME in August 1985. "Do you think we're never going to meet again, so you are going to pile everything into one interview?" he joked after more than an hour of conversation. We did meet again. Last week, on the eve of his summit meeting with George Bush, Gorbachev invited...
...couple actually being cut down by bullets. This gap is now suspected of hiding a grisly interlude. Quoting government sources in Bucharest, a French newspaper claims that Ceausescu was tortured to death following the tribunal, by Romanian soldiers who were trying to locate three briefcases containing numbers and access codes of the family's foreign bank accounts. After studying the photographic evidence, forensic experts at France's Carme Institute tentatively confirm this scenario. They note the lack of bullet entry marks on Ceausescu's torso, the small amount of blood on his body (suggesting that any gunshots he received came...
...expected to be signed into law by the President in July, will unintentionally harm those it is designed to help. Widely viewed as the most sweeping civil rights measure in more than 25 years, the act offers the nation's 43 million disabled new employment opportunities and greater access to public accommodations, transit systems and communications networks. Until the law goes into effect, handicapped people are protected by only a patchwork of state and local laws...
...obvious solutions to emergency-room overload are expensive and controversial: give people access to affordable health care, pay nurses decently, allow doctors some flexibility in treating their patients and recognize that good preventive care is a sound investment. Though politicians may resist boosting their budgets for medical care, they might be surprised to learn that many of their constituents are willing to pay the price. According to a Gallup poll released this month, 73% of Californians who believe the government should provide better health care for the poor were willing to pay higher taxes for such expanded coverage; 84% favored...