Word: fallenness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Kerkorian, 73, collected $1.3 billion from the sale last month of his majority stake in MGM/UA Communications. Chrysler, which suffered a $214 million loss in the third quarter, must have looked like a bargain. Its stock price has fallen 40% in the past year, to 12 1/4. Even so, Kerkorian's strategy remains a mystery, since Chrysler's share of the auto market is weakening and the automaker's assets might be difficult to sell piecemeal...
...open hand, outstretched to a fallen adversary, may be the surest sign that a battle is truly over. Last week brought just such a sign as the Soviet government issued a dignified -- but desperate -- request for help, and an American President responded solicitously. George Bush's decision to help sustain the Soviet Union through the hard winter ahead reflected as much politics as pity, but what made it easy was that both sides had so much to gain...
...American entertainment conquest extend well beyond economics. As the age of the military superpowers ends, the U.S., with no planning or premeditation by its government, is emerging as the driving cultural force around the world, and will probably remain so through the next century. The Evil Empire has fallen. The Leisure Empire strikes back...
...noisiest Vietnam poltergeists, of course, is the draft. Since the Iraqi invasion in August, Army recruiting has fallen off considerably. Many of those opposed to American military action fear that a gulf war would revive conscription. "If they come after my son," an Orlando mother vows, using language from another era, "I am going to send him to Canada...
...desert." The public is more diffident: in a poll published by Le Figaro last week, only 36% said they would favor French involvement in a gulf war, down from 46% in September. An earlier survey had shown that 53% wanted France to stand by the U.S.; that figure has fallen...