Word: nine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, nailbiters were the norm for the Harvard men's basketball team. Sixteen of its last 21 games finished with a margin of fewer than 10 points or went to overtime. Nine games were decided in the last minute and four were overtime decisions...
...master said that to his knowledge in nine years at the house there has been no similar harassment. He also issued a personal apology to Lucas...
Since World War II, TIME has been a global magazine in every sense of the word. Our foreign business, which has nine editions with a total circulation of 1.4 million, is now growing faster than ever. International revenues have increased by 30% in the past two years, and represent 25% of the magazine's total. The economies in Asia are booming, Western Europe is aiming for greater integration in 1992, and Eastern Europe promises new opportunities. All this makes the need for immediate information more important, and that enhances TIME's role as the leading international newsmagazine. This in turn...
...raiders' troubles have hit Wall Street like a line of falling dominoes. Defaults by overburdened borrowers have crippled the junk-bond market, which finances many takeover deals. Only $11 billion of junk bonds were issued for mergers and acquisitions in the first nine months of 1989, in contrast to $26 billion during the same period a year ago. "Investors are becoming more sophisticated and cynical," says Kingman Penniman, a Vermont-based investment adviser. "They are no longer willing to finance every buyer's fantasy of using somebody else's money to leverage and strip a company and get rich...
...between the totalitarian system and true pluralistic democracy." But popular heroes are already emerging. One is Valtr Komarek, 59, director of the official Institute of Forecasting of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. An academic with a magnetic speaking style, Komarek seized the nation's imagination last weekend with a nine-minute televised address that detailed Communist incompetence in economic management. By the Monday strike, posters had already been printed reading KOMAREK INTO THE GOVERNMENT...