Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle dragged on, the Government's case against IBM became weaker and weaker. The computer giant's once overbearing presence in almost every aspect of the industry has steadily slipped. Though it still holds an estimated 68% of the $18 billion market for big mainframe computers that can cost several million dollars each, the firm has only a modest share of the rapidly growing market for smaller business computers that can run more than $100,000 and little of the small, but exploding, business in personal computers that cost about...
...loss of a job remains, by definition, an economic event. Naturally, it is the economic aspect of the world of the jobless that has become most familiar to the public: the struggle to pay the rent and keep food on the table, the suspenseful search for new work. The intangible atmosphere of the jobless world is less familiar only because it is ordinarily more private, often downright obscure. The most obvious personal wounds of joblessness are often easy to spot, as in the language of Ronald Poindexter, 34, a Washington bricklayer out of work for six months: "I feel sick...
More interesting than the whodunit part of Fuller's play is the "Who the hell was he?" aspect in which Waters' complex character is explored. Waters has tried to scour himself to whiteness through discipline and excellence. He is a martinet who addresses his recruits as "shiftless lazy niggers" and hounds one guitar-strumming vagabond singer, sweetly played by Larry Riley, to his death. "They ought to work you niggers till your legs fall off," he screams at his charges, meaning "snap to and measure up," the one-line basic English catechism of the U.S. regular Army sergeant...
...concern for evenhandedness in teaching about the earth's beginnings centered on one aspect of biology? Laws should be passed mandating impartial treatment over the whole spectrum of knowledge. Equal attention should be given to astrology and astronomy, to alchemy and chemistry, etc. This will then assure our children of an unbiased education...
...SPANISH: Possibly because they spent so much time on the right under Francisco Franco, Spaniards now position themselves on the political left. More than other Europeans, they consider wages the most important aspect of working. And more than the others, too, they believe in God, hell and the devil...