Word: aligned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vincent Dixon also announced that he would run, but would not align himself with either the CCA or the more conservative Independent factions on the city council...
...serious side of De Vries has been subject to considerable analysis, most of it attempts to align the author's dour Dutch Calvinist upbringing with his development as a comic writer. To borrow a De Vriesian analogy, such treatment is like putting the reader into a diving bell and taking him down 3 ft. His latest novel counters that effect by granting his fans a chance to wet their feet once again in the forbidding shallows of sex, money and social class...
...align their official rates with sagging world petroleum markets, nine of the 13 OPEC members reshuffled the prices of a variety of crudes they sell; the effect was to reduce the weighted average cost of an OPEC barrel of oil by 29 cents, although some grades will drop by more than $1. It was only the second price cut in the organization's 25-year history. The first came in March 1983, when sliding world crude prices forced OPEC to mark down its Arab Light benchmark crude...
...Superpower Relations. We have been friends with the Soviet Union for a long time. They were friends when we needed them and there are many issues on which we think alike without having to align with each other. That doesn't mean that we don't want to be friends with the U.S. We want to improve our relations in every sphere with the U.S. But we want to keep our option of individuality open...
Despite the complexity of converting visuals into numbers, coders say that the computer procedures are a quantum leap over the all-manual page assembly of the past. "This method is more exact," explains Coder Steve Feeback. "The computer can align things more precisely than...