Word: bided
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...window early in life where the opportunity to make a successful transplant from a baboon to a human exists." But neither Hill nor other doctors foresaw any possibility of using simian hearts as a permanent solution to heart disease. "I think these transplants might be used to bide time until a human heart can be found," says Dr. Michael DeBakey, the pioneering Houston heart transplant surgeon...
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's hard line [WORLD, June 25] is a defensive response to the realization that most of the world now sees the Soviets for what they are. Their government denies freedoms to its people and invades its neighbors. If the West can bide its time and avoid a nuclear confrontation, the Soviet government will eventually collapse from its own deadweight...
...program to identify a heavenly body that he has seen in the sky. Says Litsios: "This has really expanded my field of vision. I saw more in the six weeks after I got TellStar than I had in the six years before that." The Bide-a-Wee animal shelter in New York City is using a program called Choose-a-Pooch, which helps match potential owners with homeless mongels. Devised by Randy Lockwood, 35, an assistant psychology professor at the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York...
Edwardes left in November 1982, and will become chairman of International Computers Ltd. this spring. His legacy to BL includes a talented management team, among them his successor, Sir Austin Bide, 68, and John Egan, 43, who was recruited in 1980 from Massey-Ferguson, the farm-equipment maker, to head BL's sputtering Jaguar division. In 1980 Jaguar was losing $1.5 million a week, and its sleek models had acquired a well-deserved reputation for shoddy workmanship and unreliability. Egan cut Jaguar's work force by nearly 30% and helped improve labor relations by holding family gatherings...
Shoppers now coolly wait for prices to come down before buying. If they do not see what they want at the right price, they bide their time until prices drop. Says Ann Colwell, 28, a Dallas publicist: "It's a consumer-oriented Christmas," as if somehow it rarely had been until this year. She is waiting for Evan-Picone suits at Sanger Harris to go on sale. When they do, she will buy. Said Martin Tolep, economist for F.W. Woolworth: "By waiting, they're going to make some retailers frantic...