Word: whirls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freed by Mikhail Gorbachev to report on the corrupt and famous, Soviet journalists are busy pushing glasnost toward its tabloid outer limits -- tracking down space visitors and exploring psychic mysteries. Science takes a whirl with fantasy. Fiction runs away with the facts. Humanoids abduct humans...
Amid the growing scrutiny, the takeover whirl accelerated last week. In Chicago directors of UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, approved a bid by the carrier's management and pilots' union to buy out the second largest U.S. carrier for $6.75 billion. In the highly leveraged deal, employees would own 75% of the company, top managers would get 10% and investor British Airways would have 15%. Beverly Hills billionaire Marvin Davis, who had bid $6.19 billion for UAL, said he would match the management group's offer if that package were to fail. In Washington a takeover group headed...
...liners. Nick Rocks is a little-league MTV, and Don't Just Sit There is a talk show geared to and hosted by youngsters. The opening of Kids' Court slyly satirizes TV courtroom shows: two young "litigants" face the camera in dramatic closeup and state their beefs, then whirl and burst into the courtroom-studio to the cheers of an audience. Take that, Judge Wapner...
...financial world often seems to whirl over our heads, but then suddenly entangles us without our knowledge in enterprises from which we might like to keep distant. But who's to place blame? Let him who has never had a Double Stuff cast the first stone, right...
...knows Bill Bennett, 44, doubts that. Nor has there been much doubt where he has been headed in the cross-country whirl that has taken him to 102 elementary and secondary schools in three years -- plus scores of service clubs and state legislatures. Watch him as he visits No. 88, the Amherst Middle School near Nashua...