Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ventures may run circles around stodgy companies when it comes to rolling out fresh products, they often cannot protect their new markets against giant foreign conglomerates that can knock off their merchandise and mass-produce it at a much lower cost. American companies invented many of the basic technologies behind such products as videocassette recorders and robotics, but Japanese firms have captured the lion's share of the sales in those fields...
...TODAY: THE TELEVISION SHOW (syndicated, debuting Sept. 12). MOST OF US ARE TIRED OF DULL NETWORK NEWS. At least, that's the operating principle behind this much touted video version of McPaper, which will offer a zippy nightly wrap-up of news, sports and features...
...never lost her sense that death "is an outrage" for those left behind. "It's an outrage when a young father or mother dies, leaving two kids, or two old people who have spent 50 years together are parted." She is sustained by her belief that "this isn't the end, and parting isn't forever." For those who take a more secular view of death, there are very practical reasons for the hospice philosophy. "We must not lose the chance," she says, "of making good on a great deal of untidiness in our lives, or of making time...
...Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America, Captain Richard Garrison, an Army chaplain, discovered that even the remote Alaskan wilderness has been despoiled. There, at 8,500 ft., was a pile of garbage -- partly eaten food, foil wrappers from freeze-dried meals, plastic bags and other trash left behind by previous climbers who had disobeyed the basic outdoor rule to backpack out all such junk. "It really detracts from the experience," says Garrison...
...Dylan's voice has become a rickety vehicle, but Guthrie's songs are built for long trips over rough roads, and Dylan drives Pretty Boy home, hard. You can hear the Dylan of the early '60s in this version, making peace and moving along with his current incarnation, leaving behind in the process a reminder that many of his verbal, as well as musical, skills were drawn from a master. Guthrie foxed around with being just folks, but it took a writer of superlative skill -- not to mention sophistication -- to mingle folklore, radical politics and social satire as supplely...