Word: advent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That will be a tough call, but the trend is already established. Says Greg Geller, vice president of RCA Records: "Personal appearance has always been a factor, but since the advent of videos it has become crucial." Says Dan Beck, merchandising director for CBS Associated labels: "One of the reasons Cyndi Lauper was signed was because she'll be a great film performer." An executive at CBS, which distributes Portrait, is even blunter. "Lauper had the vocals as well as the visuals, or she wouldn't have been signed...
...POST-WORLD WAR TWO period has been one of radical change in the international system. The liberation of peoples from colonial rule has ushered dozens of new states onto a stage previously occupied by only a handful. Concurrently, the advent and proliferation of nuclear weapons has given a new and possibly incomprehensible meaning to the concept of force...
...government--the only international voice to speak out in favor of the referendum--will also toe the new South African line. With the advent of the Reagan Administration a pattern of "constructive engagement" with South Africa reversed the legislation of the Carter era. Although the House voted last week to put severe restrictions on future American loans and investments to South Africa, most Americans still cling to the overly pessimistic view of peaceful change in the country...
...when Calvin Coolidge dictated a single sentence, had 25 copies of it made and cut into two-inch strips, then handed them out without comment to reporters who had lined up. The sentence read: "I do not choose to run for President in 1928." Strout resents the later advent of TV coverage of press conferences, which turned reporters into "reluctant, unpaid Hollywood actors, encouraging the exhibitionists...
They proclaim the sun's highest and lowest point in the midday sky, on about June 22 and Dec. 22, (the summer and winter solstices), and signal the advent of a new season. Modern calendars ensure that there are no mistakes. But how did the pre-Columbian peoples foretell the seasons? Apparently, says a husband-and-wife scientific team, the Southwest's ancient inhabitants were skilled solar observers who used rock carvings to keep track of the sun's progress across the heavens...