Word: breedings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line of reference books: Jane's Spaceflight Directory. Explains Editor Reginald Turnill: "The sort of superpower pushing and shoving that we are familiar with down on earth is moving into space." The directory, released last week, claims that the Pentagon has, for some time, been training "a new breed of military astronauts." It also mentions reports-officially discounted by both sides- that the Soviets have already practiced "blinding" U.S. satellites with laser beams...
...NCPAC isn't marching alone. A new breed of self-styled "populist" conservatives, many supported by the Moral Majority and its clones, is attacking what has always been politically unattackable since the Great Depression: the welfare state...
Shipler, one of the new breed of correspondents (he speaks fluent Russian and attended the Russian Institute at Columbia University) has doubts...
Crime Fighting Can Be Fun. TV's glum professionals, from Sergeant Joe Friday to Lieut. Kojak, have given way to a new breed of lighthearted crime fighters, very '80s guys and gals who read the riot act with tongue firmly in cheek. The wisecracks are often tossed back and forth between a pair of mismatched partners, but these folks can laugh in the face of death too. (A cop on ABC's new Hawaiian Heat says to his buddy, who has just been lowered by helicopter to save his life: "Nice of you to drop...
Sears is such a large and welcome customer to many U.S. companies that it can breed an unhealthy dependence. In recent years Sears has encouraged its suppliers to seek other markets. Sears takes 43% of Whirlpool's $2.7 billion annual sales of dishwashers, dryers and clotheswashers, which it sells under its own Kenmore name. Whirlpool has a Sales to Sears department that caters to the retailer's specifications. The relationship has gone on for 65 years, with no written contract. Says Donna McLean, a Whirlpool official: "Any customer who represents 43% of your business is going to carry...