Word: blend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called on the netherworld carpet for seduction and abandonment of a woman who, when summoned to testify, proves insufferable even to the great adversary. Mamet may mistrust all women -- his essay "True Stories of Bitches" featured his mother, sister and wife -- but this shrew is a giddyingly specific blend of utter unreason and serene self- righteousness. Still, her sins pointedly do not excuse Bobby's. Mamet may josh about the devil but plainly believes in evil -- and finds it entrenched in the heart...
...start selling cars that run on gasoline substitutes by 1995. Car companies would be told to produce 500,000 such vehicles the first year and 1 million units a year beginning in 1997. Among possible substitutes: methanol, a high-octane alcohol derived from wood; ethanol, or "gasohol," a blend of gasoline and grain alcohol; and compressed natural...
Other alternative fuels are gaining popularity around the world. In smog- choked Sao Paulo, Brazilian drivers tank up with an ethanol blend that is 78% gasoline and 22% alcohol distilled from sugarcane. According to Illinois- based Archer Daniels Midland, ethanol blends account for 8% of all U.S. motor fuel. The mixture is readily available in parts of the Midwest at stations that display the gasohol symbol, an ear of corn...
...blend of Prussian thoroughness and Marxist ideology, the German Democratic Republic for decades provided the highest standard of living in Eastern Europe. Now the production machine has grown old and uncompetitive, and economic growth is less than 1% a year. The Communist youth daily Junge Welt asked last week what must be done to keep its citizens from being "lured away by shop windows filled with bananas." But it is not simply economic hardship in the East that motivates those who flee to the West. The refugees who arrived in West Germany stressed that it was the all-intrusive influence...
...provocative new book argues that most Americans still fear and hate homosexuals and that to overcome the hostility, gay men and women need to tone down and blend...