Word: mountaintops
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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With this idea in mind and Jefferson's tract in hand, Umina descended from the mountaintop and entered the race for governor...
WORLD: After cutting a deal with Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl ascends to the diplomatic mountaintop...
...suburban Chicago electronics giant (1989 sales: $9.6 billion) hopes to put in place by 1996 a network of 77 satellites that can relay phone calls to any spot on the planet. That means when the boss has a question, no Himalayan mountaintop or African jungle encampment will be beyond the reach of the ringing phone. Named Iridium, for the chemical element whose nucleus is orbited by 77 electrons, the Motorola plan would constitute the first global cellular system. Calls would cost $1 to $3 a minute, compared with about 50 cents a minute for cellular calls within urban systems linked...
...that point the Germans will be sorely tempted, for reasons that have nothing to do with the poltergeists of national character, to want their own nuclear deterrent. Never mind what Kohl told Bush at Camp David in February, or what Bush told Mikhail Gorbachev at the same mountaintop retreat earlier this month, or what Gorbachev told the Supreme Soviet two weeks ago when he seemed, with much ambiguity and no enthusiasm, to accept the idea of the West German army remaining in NATO. Never mind what agreements were signed as a result of the Two-plus-Four talks back...
...Ivan Boesky," said one Wall Streeter close to the case. "There are no revelations that Michael can give the Government." Some legal experts doubted that prosecutors ever intended to use Milken in that manner. Said Kenneth Schacter, a former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan: "Once you get to the mountaintop, it doesn't make sense to negotiate for people lower down...