Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Though the comics were an instant hit, Turtlemania did not reach the big time until New York licensing agent Mark Freedman offered to market the heroes. "It just hit me in the gut. The name was great. It was going to be the funniest thing I'd ever done or the worst thing." Freedman cut the deal with Playmates Toys, who, in turn, sponsored the first TV episodes. The Turtles have been modified somewhat in the process of being turned into media stars. Their passion for pizza, for instance, and their "Hey, Dude" lingo were added...
...able to prop up prices should any serious selling begin. On Black Monday in 1987, such intervention helped keep Tokyo's losses under 15%, in contrast to a 22.6% drop in the Dow, giving credence to the notion that Japan was a special, blessed case. In the final analysis, though, the Tokyo market appears as vulnerable as any other to the laws of supply and demand. "It was a classic bubble," says John Makin, director of fiscal policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington...
Sotheby's, understandably terrified of the results if Irises had to be auctioned again, repossessed the painting and began seeking a private buyer for it at $65 million, saying that though Bond "owned" it, they "had control" of its whereabouts. (Some Australian museum officials now believe, though they have produced no evidence publicly, that the picture exhibited as Irises on a tour of Australian state galleries in 1989 was a new copy, protected from close inspection behind double glass.) Efforts to sell it at the high price failed. Since informed art-dealing sources concurred late last year that the right...
...column of more than 100 military vehicles, including 59 tanks, rumbled into the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. As residents rushed to their windows, the convoy clattered by the parliament building, where legislators were toiling through the night to put the final touches on the creation of an independent government. Though the caravan quickly disappeared behind the gates of an army base in Vilnius, the ominous parade was obviously intended to intimidate the Lithuanians. But the ploy only persuaded the legislators to prepare for the worst. They immediately passed an emergency resolution to transfer their authority to the republic's representative...
...weapons in the hands of the populace are an estimated 30,000 hunting rifles and shotguns. In the days after the order from Moscow, no more than a handful were turned in, though a group of students made a show of surrendering a cache of toy pistols. When General Ginutis Taurinskas, head of the local military-training program, told parliament he had obeyed orders and relinquished weapons and motor vehicles to the Soviets, jeers filled the hall...