Word: blow
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...only would the office be transformed. The American household soaked up microwaves, VCRs, blow dryers, mix 'n' eat, the computerized automobile that announces that all systems work and it is getting 23 miles to the gallon. The kitchen was streamlined with so much labor-saving gadgetry that meals could be prepared, served and cleaned up in less time than it took to boil an egg. Thus freed from household chores, Mom could head off to a committee meeting on social justice, while Dad chaired the men's-club clothing drive, and the kids went to bed at 10:30 after...
...Japanese inroads in aerospace would be a serious blow to U.S. industrial might. American manufacturers exported $26.9 billion worth of passenger planes and military aircraft and missiles in 1988, which gave the U.S. a $17.9 billion surplus in aerospace trade. These were precious exports, considering that the U.S. ran an overall trade deficit of $119.8 billion last year; the gap with Japan alone was $52.1 billion. U.S. trade woes were underscored last week when the Government reported that the deficit during February widened to $10.5 billion, up 21% from the previous month. The major cause: a fresh flood of imports...
...blow struck against Mexico's most powerful drug lord was the latest in a series of headline-grabbing actions initiated by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari since he took office late last year. In January, after a sensational shoot-out in Ciudad Madero, police arrested Joaquin Hernandez Galicia, known as "La Quina," the powerful and widely feared leader of Mexico's oil workers' union. A month later Eduardo Legorreta Chauvert, a top businessman with ties to the Salinas government, was jailed on charges of stock fraud. What La Quina, Legorreta and Felix Gallardo have in common is that they...
MICHAEL Doonesbury has my sympathy. Gary Trudeau's cartoon leftist-turned-blow-dried-Yuppie is wrestling with the classic liberal dilemma...
...sinking was a sharp blow to the Soviet navy. The prototype sub represented state-of-the-art Soviet design, impressive enough to prompt concern in Washington that U.S. superiority in undersea warfare might be imperiled. The Mike-class vessel was put in service in 1984 and was the only one of its class afloat. Experts believe it was used to test new design and propulsion features. The sinking marked at least the fifth such Soviet loss in 30 years. In the most recent major disaster, a Yankee-class Soviet sub burned and sank in the Atlantic in October 1986. Three...