Word: augmentative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night, I got a call from someone who wanted to know if I knew anything about the planet Saturn," recalls Sara Chalfen, one of a handful of "casuals"-men and women who work part time to augment the regular staff of 12 operators. "He wanted to know the names of the stars that circle around Saturn. I tried to find him someone at the Smithsonian who would know-I don't know how successful...
...course, there were all those revenues from wedding-souvenir sales and the tourist trade to consider, although tourism surprisingly fell a bit short of expectations, with rooms to spare at several major London hotels. An extra $200 million for souvenirs and $440 million more in tourism were expected to augment the national coffers. But in the matter of budget and expense vs. value rendered, the Windsors, who are monarchs not only for a nation but for the international media, found themselves up against a conventional show-business maxim: It is only when you bomb out that...
...early 70s, the courses in General Education were diffuse enough that further bypasses, in the Humanities and the social Sciences, were proposed and passed to augment the Sciences bypass--and suddenly everybody had the option of ignoring General Education altogether, simply by taking two courses in any department instead of a Gen Ed offering...
...France because they were defective. Recalls Sontheimer: "It was a major disaster, and by then I'd really had it. Robot-Coupe was not innovative, and their quality control was low." He struck a deal with a Japanese manufacturer to produce new mod els of the Cuisinart to augment his line, and before long he was selling more Japanese than French processors. Out raged executives at Robot-Coupe charged that Sontheimer was no longer promoting their models, and last year they severed his French connection...
...playwrights began "to augment political opportunism [of African governments] with a far more questing opportunism," infusing into their drama "a political think-for-yourself dimension," he said, adding that the theater, as an articulate form of political "self-definition" remained hidden from the control of governments...