Word: finaling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...country's first multiparty balloting in 30 years was actually clean, the ruling powers would be dealt a humiliating defeat. Early returns last week indicated that Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, took 392 of the new National Assembly's 485 contested seats. Although final results will not be available for perhaps two weeks, the army- backed party has so far claimed only nine seats. How the remaining parliamentary seats would be apportioned among the other 91 parties was not clear, but it seemed incidental. The future of Burma, renamed Myanmar last June, belongs...
...stripes on his white shirts will betray a whiff of bohemian raffishness.) His accent in no way distinguishes his speech from that heard in the hallways or elevators; he flattens his vowels and comes down hard on his rs, in the approved Midwestern manner, and tends to drop the final g from words like coming...
After his grueling first nine months, Turow spent 14 equally grueling weeks in the summer turning his diaries into narrative form. One L was published just before his final year at Harvard. Some of his professors and classmates did not like the book -- and particularly their thinly disguised appearances in it -- but most reviewers were ecstatic. One L went on to sell some 40,000 copies in hardback and to become an underground, pass-along classic among law students. Turow confesses himself thrilled by "my first taste of literary success," but he was not swayed from the new path...
...drawing out the suspense. The gimmick in Presumed Innocent was to follow the mystery through the eyes of the accused murderer, Rusty Sabich, a public prosecutor on trial for the murder of an amorous colleague. The intimate narrative device ensured reader sympathy, even though Sabich waited until the final pages to tell all he knew about the corpus delectable...
Jovanovich had already been replaced as chief executive in December by his son Peter, 41, but last week's final farewell was abrupt -- and necessary. While the company faces no immediate liquidity crisis, its $1.7 billion debt is dragging it down. HBJ posted an operating loss of $242 million last year, and its stock has collapsed to $3 a share, from $19 in 1989. To shed ballast, HBJ sold its Sea World theme parks last year for $1.1 billion. But the company needs to sell even more assets, and the elder Jovanovich did not have the heart to tear apart...