Word: amber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Woodrow Wilson's diamond-bright belief of peace through world order reached and inspired the farthest corners of civilization. But he was frozen in the amber of his vision, and would not bend in the legislative struggle to bring the U.S. into the League of Nations...
...Lebanon and the removal of the P.L.O. from West Beirut provided the U.S. with an excellent opportunity to get the peace process working again. Once the proposals had been formulated, a special mission was secretly sent to sound out Jordan's King Hussein, and came back with an amber Light to proceed cautiously. Israel was not consulted, in part because the Administration feared it would react, as it has sometimes done in the past, by leaking the plan prematurely, and not necessarily accurately, to the press...
...worst level in half a century. And rarely, if ever, have the signs been so confusing. The forecasters who try to figure out the prospects for jobs, prices, production and incomes are in the position of a motorist approaching a schizoid traffic light that is flashing green, amber and red signals all at once...
...From amber waves of grain to purple mountain majesties, America is selling a little bit of almost everything under its beautiful for spacious skies. Want a lighthouse overlooking one of the most spectacular stretches of California's rugged coastline? Just such a property is going on the block. A piece of prime bottom land in the Midwest? The Government is prepared to part with several hundred acres worth. Looking for privacy? Uncle Sam is offering mountaintops and ranger stations in Montana and New Hampshire...
...companies are winning their beer battles because making and marketing the amber drink has become an enormously expensive enterprise. The most efficient way to brew beer is in huge modern breweries that can cost $250 million or more to construct and many millions of dollars more to operate. The best way to market the resulting product is by setting up a national advertising drive and an efficient, but costly nationwide distribution network...