Word: blitzkrieged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They're like Napolean's army without any cannons, or a Blitzkrieg without any bombs...
...using his fertile imagination, boundless energy and shrewd tactics to tie the biotechnology industry in knots. Even the General Accounting Office is impressed; it concluded in a report last month that the Agriculture Department has been slow to act on biotechnology because of "anxiety" over Rifkin's legal blitzkrieg. Says Jon Lash, a Vermont environmental official: "I've always been amazed at how he's been able...
...years ago this month, the North Vietnamese swept down the map like the blade of a guillotine. They came in full divisions, with artillery and tanks. They banged across the countryside like Patton. It was no longer the endless, hallucinatory Viet Nam at all, but blitzkrieg, Western war, all of those years of inconclusive struggle finished off briskly in a short, surreal spring...
Having dealt with the machine's more visible flaws, IBM immediately set in motion a two-pronged marketing campaign that combined dramatic price cuts with blitzkrieg advertising-radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, even direct mail. The price cutting began in earnest in July, when IBM slashed the cost of the basic one-diskdrive model from $1,269 to $999. In mid-October, the company offered dealers an extra $250 rebate and encouraged them to pass on the savings to customers by selling the machine with heavily discounted software and peripheral equipment. By November, computer stores were offering a computer...
...Soviets stepped up their efforts last week to sow discontent between the two countries. Soviet commentators did little to else but denounce West German "revanchism," the desire to restore pre-World War II boundaries, describing the country as virtually a reborn Third Reich that is preparing to launch another blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union. Despite an improving relationship between East and West Germany this year, Honecker may decide not to brave such Soviet opposition. Indeed, when officials in Bonn and East Berlin conferred to settle details of the trip, the East Germans withheld official notification that it would take place...