Word: late
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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After bullets start flying and Americans start dying, it will be to late...
...Thatcher and the Tories who must govern without her, the downturn in the British economy is seen as a serious threat in the general election. It is expected that the Tories will call the election as late as possible, which could mean the spring of 1992. But the inflation rate, now running at 10.9%, is slackening, and the pound, linked to the E.C.'s Exchange Rate Mechanism, is strong. The next Prime Minister may be able to lower interest rates and even spend more money in the social areas Thatcher was accused of neglecting so badly -- education and health services...
...GLORY: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM S. PALEY by Sally Bedell Smith (Simon & Schuster; $29.95). An 800-page biography that flattens the image of the late self-inflating CBS founder and relentless socialite to 21-inch size and even smaller...
...evidence for a second Post allegation: that a Justice Department prosecutor investigating a bank failure in 1985 was warned off by FBI agents because one of his targets had CIA ties. The House committee, which questioned CIA Director William Webster about the matter in a closed-door session in late October, is expected to announce its findings soon...
...Great Auction Wave in contemporary art, which rose amid the financial euphoria of 1982 and crested in late 1989, is now over, vanished into the sand. Just as one of its signs was the auction-room applause that greeted some new price level -- $17 million for a Jasper Johns, $20.7 million for a De Kooning -- so its end was marked by another kind of applause...