Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...keyed former financial expert had just handed a devastating defeat to Prime Minister Michael N. Manley, the buoyant leader of the People's National Party. In a reversal of the landslide Manley won in the past two elections, the final count might give the Labor Party 51 of the 60 seats in the country's Parliament, a gain of 38 over the 1976 election. The People's Party was reduced from 47 to a mere 9. With that, the island nation had taken a sharp turn in its political course: away from Manley's pro-Cuban...
...blizzard of flower petals, balloons, confetti and bravoes, she dipped her final curtsy with all the grace and enfolding gaiety that have made her the country's favorite diva. It was her last hurrah as an opera singer. For more than a quarter of a century audiences have been captivated by her supple, crystalline soprano voice, the musicality of her every acting gesture and her warm, spontaneous personality, which soared-but never stomped-across the footlights. There was no phony mystique, no overlay of artistic "temperament" in a world notorious for imperious egos. Sills onstage was indistinguishable from Sills...
...every way, the ferocity of the Weimar artists echoed the instability of the society itself, its institutions continually atotter from the assaults of left and right, of which the final result was the triumph of Hitler. But to classify them all (as the catalogue sloppily does) as "realist" is sim ply to abolish the meaning of the word...
...National Security Council and the State Department are considering different ways to return as much money to Tehran as quickly as possible, but no final decisions have yet been reached. The gold and an extra $1.3 billion that the Iranians have invested in U.S. Government securities could be shifted quickly into an Iranian account. Even the $ 1.5 billion that private banks have seized to offset their Iranian loans could probably be pried loose with the cooperation of international bankers. There would probably be an understanding that the Iranians would accelerate the settlement of the old loans. So far, the Khomeini...
...touted Genentech. Now the schools themselves are looking for test-tube gold. In what would be an unprecedented step, Harvard University is considering starting a genetic-engineering firm to cash in on its scientists' breakthroughs. President Derek Bok has called for faculty comment on the idea, and the final decision is expected this month...