Word: descending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financially in September 1985 when he sold 100 shares of General Foods stock. According to the SEC's complaint against Boesky, he made illegal profits from insider trading on General Foods. The Oriolo lawsuit is only the start of an expected avalanche of civil litigation that is expected to descend in the aftermath of the Boesky affair...
They begin to arrive a few at a time, bright, familiar butterflies alighting in the upper branches of the gray-green fir trees. But as the month of November wears on, the sky becomes filled with tiny, floating flecks of color. Tens of millions of butterflies descend from the skies, draping entire trees in an astonishing tapestry of black, white and orange...
...Grenouille's crusade for sensual domination of the world leads him to descend into the innermost depths of evil Suskind's work grows more and more bizarre, losing some of its attraction as an entertainment novel, yet gaining appeal as a strangely hypnotic excercise in the pains and pleasures of sensual extremes...
...takes perhaps an hour to descend the mountainside. The mortar barrage goes on and on, hitting where the rebels have been, or off to one side, or on the trail ahead, but never quite where they are. Finally, as the guerrillas reach the valley floor, the barrage subsides. The men stop to pray in the shade of a grove of trees, by the thistle-covered graves of two slain comrades...
...unidentified experienced controller covering Flight 498 had only ten radar transponder blips to track on his screen. "It was busy, but we weren't to the point of saturation," said Air Controller Karl Grundmann, another of the men on duty. Flight 498's controller told the pilot to descend from 7,000 ft. to 6,000. At 11:53, he issued a warning to the Aeromexico jet: "Traffic 10 o'clock (slightly to the airliner's left), one mile northbound, altitude unknown." Re- sponded 498: "Roger." This plane is not believed to have been Kramer's Piper. Seconds later...