Word: approached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...played more unselfishly in the second half," Harvard Coach Scott Anderson said. "You've got one guy driving, looking for a shot--that's one approach to offense. Then you've got one guy driving, drawing a man and looking for the feed--that's a better offense...
...benefits -- and pitfalls -- of Zhao's coastal approach are most visible in the contrast between Guangdong and Hunan. Since 1985, for example, Guangdong has allowed the price of pork to rise, as it did earlier with other foodstuffs. Popular demand not only spurred local pig production but, with Guangdong merchants paying more than twice the state-controlled price of 2.80 yuan per kg (35 cents per lb.) for pork in Hunan, also began to siphon off the output of pig farms in the neighboring province. As a result, the supply of pork decreased dramatically in Hunan's state-subsidized markets...
...Swire -- and has only recently begun to escape from a typhoon of troubles. The company bought or built many of its Hong Kong buildings in the early 1980s, just before real estate values in the colony took a dive. The collapse resulted in part from nervousness about the approach of 1997, when sovereignty over Hong Kong will pass from Britain to China. Wary of that transfer's consequences, Jardines decided in 1984 to shift its legal headquarters to Bermuda -- a move that stirred lingering resentment in Hong Kong...
Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov called the novel approach "unacceptable," and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze again threatened a unilateral Soviet troop pullout. That would leave Moscow with no obligation to help restore peace in Afghanistan or resettle the 2 million Afghan refugees now living in Pakistan...
...single approach can guarantee the professor a safe path through the hazards of an individual student's interpretation. "There are all sorts of approaches, but first of all you have to try to do it as straight as possible. Although these are matters of subjectivity, you cannot joke about it or be casual about it or be dismissive of it," Glazer says...