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1974 Henry Kissinger and Shah of Iran oil pricing meeting candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story According to later accounts, when Saudi oil representative Sheik Ahmed Yamani was sent by King Faisal to the Shah of Iran in 1974, the Shah said Henry Kissinger wanted a higher price for oil. ●●

1974 DEC's Ken Olsen dismisses the idea of personal computers candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story DEC president Ken Olsen tells his operations committee he sees no reason anyone would want a computer of his own, as debate over a smaller PDP-8 stalls. ●●

1975 In early 1975, Senator Frank Church tried to extract figures on pet... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story News of the SIB deal, secretly crafted by Morgan Guaranty, dealt the coup de grace to the special relationship with Morgan Stanley. These were the waning days of the Paris partnership, and Morgan Stanley, learning the news only shortly before its ... ●●

1975 In 1975, Morgan Grenfell became the first merchant bank to win the ... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At Morgan Grenfell, the Arabs would temporarily answer the firm’s problems. With their penchant for secrecy and their appreciation of the confidential style of British merchant banks, the Arabs were naturally drawn to the mysterious maze of the Ci... ●●

1975 Then, in 1975, the Conference emerged from obscurity when it was announced that agreements had been candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Then, in 1975, the Conference emerged from obscurity when it was announced that agreements had been reached which would be signed at a summit-level meeting in Helsinki. ●●

1976 In 1976, the American Jewish Congress singled out Morgan Guaranty a... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story News of the SIB deal, secretly crafted by Morgan Guaranty, dealt the coup de grace to the special relationship with Morgan Stanley. These were the waning days of the Paris partnership, and Morgan Stanley, learning the news only shortly before its ... ●●

1976 In 1976, when Peru was nearly bankrupt, Citibank, Morgans, and othe... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO SAMBA BY the mid-1970s, J. P. Morgan and Company—the holding company of Morgan Guaranty—was drawing half its profits from more than twenty offices abroad. ●●

1977 In 1977, it supervised Wall Street’s end of a $1-billion offering o... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE TOMBSTONES TO the outside world, Morgan Stanley still presented a debonair facade in the late 1970s. An Atlantic Monthly reporter, visiting its six floors atop the Exxon Building, marveled at its aplomb, its artfully modulated ... ●●

1977 In early March 1977, during a pause in candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In early March 1977, during a pause in the Angola war, members of the Lunda (or Balunda) tribal group of Zaire who had b ●●

1979 In 1979, Morgan Stanley earned a stratospheric $14.3-million fee fo... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story There was more bad news. About two years before, Morgan Stanley had set up a “risk arbitrage” department to speculate in takeover targets. As would become clear during the insider trading scandals of the 1980s, such operations were incompatible wi... ●●

1979 President Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski state... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski stated in 1979 that “I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. ●●

1980 By the end of May, church sources reported 1,844 civilian deaths alrea... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the end of May, church sources reported 1,844 civilian deaths already in 1980, a figure that reached 10,000 by the end of the year, almost all at the hands of the government. ●●

1981 It was here in 1981 that a group of 1,800 families defied the military junta candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It was here in 1981 that a group of 1,800 families defied the military junta then ruling Argentina by occupying a stretch of wasteland. ●●

1981 police that at a meeting in Romania, the Warsaw Pact powers had decided to kill the pope. This was candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story police that at a meeting in Romania, the Warsaw Pact powers had decided to kill the pope. This was apparently a leak of the forged SISMI document of May 19, 1981, which had made this claim. Thus the hearsay recounting of the substance of a forgery i ●●

1981 Two years later, in November 1981, an invasion candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Two years later, in November 1981, an invasion force of more than 40 men, pretend- ing to be members of a rugby club, tr ●●

1982 THE April 1982 war over the Falkland Islands cast a black cloud ove... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As a latecomer to Latin America, Morgan’s position as chief adviser to Brazil was a startling achievement. It was accomplished through the virtuosity of an engaging young banker of mixed nationality named Antonio Gebauer. Born in Colombia to a wea... ●●

1982 In 1982, even as Brazil teetered on the edge, Gebauer took $1.5 mil... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Behind the title of international private banking, Morgans and other banks helped wealthy Latin Americans to invest in offshore trusts and investment companies. These devices could aid the unscrupulous in dodging taxes. In the 1970s, Morgan Guaran... ●●

1982 The force of 415 was swiftly revealed in its trial usage by AT&T in... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The force of 415 was swiftly revealed in its trial usage by AT&T in 1982. A year earlier, Morgan Stanley had mustered a traditional AT&T syndicate of 255 houses. Now, for a $100-million shelf issue, AT&T invited bids from twenty-one underwriters. ●●

1982 On May 6, 1982, Morgan Stanley agreed to buy two million shares of ... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The force of 415 was swiftly revealed in its trial usage by AT&T in 1982. A year earlier, Morgan Stanley had mustered a traditional AT&T syndicate of 255 houses. Now, for a $100-million shelf issue, AT&T invited bids from twenty-one underwriters. ●●

1982 In mid-1982, Morgan Stanley joined with Hambrecht and Quist to spon... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As its underwriting business declined, Morgan Stanley turned to businesses it once would have rejected haughtily, entering the netherworld of junk bonds. These high-risk high-yield bonds were often issued to support takeovers by companies of quest... ●●

1982 When Agca identified the Bulgarians in November 1982, the integrity of... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When Agca identified the Bulgarians in November 1982, the integrity of the Italian investigative-judicial process in pursuing the case was already badly compromised for a wide variety of reasons,46 bu ●●

1983 Yale University awards honorary degrees to Meryl Streep and Mother Teresa candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At Yale University's commencement exercises, several honorary degrees were awarded. When Meryl Streep was announced as a recipient, the audience unleashed enthusiastic applause that even surpassed that given to other honorees like Mother Teresa. ●●

1984 In 1984, Morgan Grenfell was approached by the brokerage house of R... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Morgan Grenfell’s bungling of Big Bang would do more lasting damage than the Guinness scandal. Early on, a split developed, mostly between the younger directors, who favored audacious, far-reaching action in response to the challenge, and the trad... ●●

1984 Philadelphia schools conduct experiment with curriculum sung to students candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Philadelphia public schools embarked on an educational experiment in which children wearing Walkman equipment listened to rock music whose lyrics were about grammar and other academic subjects. The program was reported enthusiastically by WCBS-TV and WNBC-TV. ●●

1984 Paramount Pictures films Witness in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A Paramount Pictures film crew descended upon Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1984 to film Witness, a movie about a detective played by Harrison Ford who falls in love with an Amish woman. Despite church restrictions, some Amish community members observed the filming. ●●

1984 The Genesis Project advertised to convert Bible into film series candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the Winter 1984 issue of the Official Video Journal, an advertisement appeared for The Genesis Project, which aimed to convert the Bible into a series of movies called The New Media Bible consisting of 225 hours of film at a cost of a quarter billion dollars, with producer John Heyman and actor Topol involved. ●●

1984 The election held in Nicaragua in 1984, by contrast, was intended to l... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The election held in Nicaragua in 1984, by contrast, was intended to legitimize a government that the Reagan administration was striving to destabilize and overthrow. ●●

1984 THE MIG CRISIS STAGED DURING NICARAGUA’S ELECTION WEEK As Newsweek po... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story THE MIG CRISIS STAGED DURING NICARAGUA’S ELECTION WEEK As Newsweek pointed out on November 19, 1984, “The story of the freighter [to Nicaragua, allegedly carrying MIGs] first broke during the electio ●●

1985 Series of terrorist hijackings and attacks broadcast on television candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Multiple terrorist attacks occurred during 1985, including TWA Flight 847 hijacking, broadcast live on American television. ●●

1985 Late in the summer of 1985, after a twenty-four-year Morgan career,... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Behind the title of international private banking, Morgans and other banks helped wealthy Latin Americans to invest in offshore trusts and investment companies. These devices could aid the unscrupulous in dodging taxes. In the 1970s, Morgan Guaran... ●●

1985 At a dinner at the Connaught hotel in early 1985, Christopher Reeve... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Morgan Grenfell’s balloon was finally punctured by the Guinness scandal, which convulsed Britain and focused more anger against the City than had any scandal since the “rascally stock jobbers” of the eighteenth century. It started with an exceptio... ●●

1985 In June 1985, advised by Tony Richmond-Watson of Morgan Grenfell, S... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Morgan Grenfell’s balloon was finally punctured by the Guinness scandal, which convulsed Britain and focused more anger against the City than had any scandal since the “rascally stock jobbers” of the eighteenth century. It started with an exceptio... ●●

1986 Right before Big Bang, in June 1986, Morgans overcame historic rese... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Morgan Grenfell’s bungling of Big Bang would do more lasting damage than the Guinness scandal. Early on, a split developed, mostly between the younger directors, who favored audacious, far-reaching action in response to the challenge, and the trad... ●●

1986 In 1986, to raise capital for these new activities and strengthen i... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story With its unerring instinct for profitable activities, Morgan Stanley noted the LBO profits at First Boston and Merrill Lynch. In 1985, it joined with CIGNA Insurance to create a leveraged buyout fund. It struck spectacular deals that made merger p... ●●

1986 But as in 1986, after the case against the Bulgarians was dismissed in... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But as in 1986, after the case against the Bulgarians was dismissed in an Italian court for insufficient evidence, none of them felt any obligation to explain their failures and apologize to their rea ●●

1987 And Amnesty International, in 1987, concluded that Libya candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story And Amnesty International, in 1987, concluded that Libya had carried out attacks on at least 37 anti-Qaddafi dissidents ●●

1988 True, after his initial recommendations were accepted by the Peruvian government in 1988, there was candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story True, after his initial recommendations were accepted by the Peruvian government in 1988, there was a drastic reduction in the time it took to register a property (to just one month) and an even steeper 99 per cent cut in the costs of the transaction. ●●

1988 Then, in January 1988, Morgans became the first commercial bank to ... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The bank knew its genteel image hurt in the slash-and-burn takeover game. As Bob Engel said, “When a chairman wakes up in the middle of the night with a phone call from someone saying, ‘We want to buy your company,’ he thinks of Morgan Stanley ins... ●●

1988 In 1988, Merrill Lynch, once scorned as plebeian, led domestic unde... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX SKYSCRAPER IN 1989, Morgan Stanley, with sixty-four hundred employees, occupied seventeen floors of the Exxon Building on Sixth Avenue—more than Exxon itself. The building was now owned by a Mitsui unit. Stepping off the elevat... ●●

1989 Soviet Political Opening and Agricultural Reform candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Following the decisive political opening in the Soviet Union in 1989, agricultural specialists convened to consider reforms including breaking up collective farms and privatizing land to recreate the private sector that had thrived in the 1920s. ●●

1989 By early 1989, it had begun to fire one hundred people from the for... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story If Main Street hoped that Black Monday would throw a cautionary fear into Wall Street, it was dead wrong. It only prodded the Street into more assertive, reckless behavior. Securities firms had already lost many safe, reliable businesses. ●●

1989 It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that stable liberal democracy finally spre candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that stable liberal democracy finally spread throughout Western Europe, and not until the collapse of communism in 1989–1991 that it was extended into Eastern Europe as well. ●●

1990 The middle classes, who had strongly supported the democratic opening in the early 1990s, turned aga candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The middle classes, who had strongly supported the democratic opening in the early 1990s, turned against Thaksin and supported a military coup that forced him from power in 2006. ●●

1991 When he was toppled from power in 1991, the Soviet army had thrown its support behind his rival, Bor candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When he was toppled from power in 1991, the Soviet army had thrown its support behind his rival, Boris Yeltsin, the Communist Party had been declared illegal, and the empire which had been so bloodily assembled by every Russian ruler since Peter the ●●

1991 The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, in an candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, in an April 1991 secret report, warned that “if DU gets in the food chain or ●●

1992 The Thai political system went from an authoritarian military regime to a reasonably open democracy candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Thai political system went from an authoritarian military regime to a reasonably open democracy between 1992 and 1997, preparing the way for the rise of the populist politician Thaksin Shinawatra. ●●

1992 Goldberg and Tripp pursue Monica Lewinsky scandal under Starr investigation candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1992, Lucianne Goldberg, working with former Pentagon employee Linda Tripp, pursues sexual scandal against Clinton during Whitewater investigations, leading to impeachment ●●

1996 American military presence in 1996 mirrors Roman imperial scale candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1996, the United States protected the outer reaches of its dominion by stationing 296,000 professional soldiers overseas, a figure strikingly similar to Roman imperial legions. ●●

1998 When the leading members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) attempt... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When the leading members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) attempted in 1998 to push through in secret a Multilateral Agreement on Investment that would have protected further the rights of intern ●●

1999 In its euphoria phase, which ended abruptly with the collapse of the d... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In its euphoria phase, which ended abruptly with the collapse of the dot.com market in 1999 and 2000, the mainstream media hardly noticed that only a minority had been the beneficiaries;128 they brief ●●

2004 Bush State of Union address on sovereignty candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Bush asserted in his State of Union address that America will never seek permission to defend its security ●●

2007 These laws were further extended and modified in a major revision that was passed by the NPC in 2007 candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story These laws were further extended and modified in a major revision that was passed by the NPC in 2007. ●●

2009 The United States Federal Reserve, Treasury, and Congress responded quite forcefully to its financia candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The United States Federal Reserve, Treasury, and Congress responded quite forcefully to its financial crisis, with a massive expansion of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, the $700 billion TARP, a second $700 billion stimulus package in 2009, and ●●

2010 on December 17, when pro-democracy protesters took to the streets, occupie candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story on December 17, 2010, when pro-democracy protesters took to the streets, occupied the squares, and overthrew the government ●●

2011 London Riots and Multiple Global Protests candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On August 9, 2011, three events occurred: Apple surpassed Exxon as world's most capitalized corporation, London riots erupted, and Spanish citizens demanded right to be forgotten. ●●

2012 This happened most recently following the 18th Party Congress in 2012 in the early pronouncements of candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This happened most recently following the 18th Party Congress in 2012 in the early pronouncements of the new leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping and Wang Qishan, head of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission responsible for rooting out ●●

2013 These weaknesses were made painfully evident in the European debt crisis of 2010–2013 candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story These weaknesses were made painfully evident in the European debt crisis of 2010–2013. ●●

2015 Carnegie Mellon study demonstrates user vulnerability to behavioral influence on social media candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff cites a 2015 Carnegie Mellon review by Acquisti, Brandimarte, and Loewenstein showing users are easily influenced in disclosure and their emotions and behaviors can be shaped. ●●

2017 It is a sad story candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It is a sad story.”2017 Bohr wrote Churchill on May 22; the letter was circumspect but political after all and conveyed what he had not been allowed to convey at the meeting: “that the President is deeply concerned in his own mind with the stupendous consequences of the project, in which he sees grave dangers, but also unique opportunities.” Bohr did not spell out these opportunities. ●●

2017 Zuckerberg articulates Facebook's mission as spiritual fulfillment and global community candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff documents Zuckerberg's 2017 assertion that Facebook will solve modernity's anxieties by providing purpose, hope, moral validation, and addressing feelings of isolation through its platform. ●●

2018 On September 26, Fausto Luna, an Uber driver, died when he jumped in front candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On September 26, 2018, Fausto Luna, an Uber driver, died when he jumped in front of an A train at the 175th Street station in Washington Heights ●●