Word: nu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to NU Sports Information Director Bill Doherty, only a handful of "plague-free, over-the-hill" fans were allowed in to watch the Red Raiders plaster the Huskies--who were playing without seven players serving suspensions for a brawl against Merrimack...
...band used to do this every year until five years ago," NU band director Chris Jagodzinski explained. "But, I guess because membership had fallen off, they stopped coming. So we've picked up the tradition again this year. We thought we'd give it another...
...other hand, directly after Wonder's quote, the section labeled "Anonymous" begins by citing the Cuckoo Song form the year 1250: "Summer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, and springth the wude nu--Sing cuccu!" I suppose in the context of the latter, "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," doesn't sound so silly...
While some of the students who participated in the Rangoon Fall demonstrations have gone underground, others have formed political organizations. Foremost among them is the Democratic Party for New Society, which says it has 100,000 members. Former Prime Minister U Nu, ousted by Ne Win in 1962, has declared a "parallel government," consisting of old officials like himself. Even the former ruling Burma Socialist Program Party has transformed itself into something called the National Unity Party...
Despite such impressive showings, most of the companies that have been bought by their managers are weighed down by debt. Scott's $133 million in outstanding obligations is more than five times as great as its shareholders' equity. Nu-kote's $55.6 million in debt amounts to more than eleven times equity. If sales plummeted or interest rates rose, those debt loads could become crippling burdens. The new manager-owners have made a good start at running their companies, but the test will come during the next economic downturn...