Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brief tenure atop GM, Stempel presided over two consecutive years of red ink -- including the largest annual loss ever by an American company, $4.5 billion in 1991. Stempel had tried to stanch the bleeding with a plan to close 21 plants and eliminate 74,000 jobs, but a year later the company had trimmed only 35,000 jobs and had still not decided which plants to shut...
Play the Blue Danube, maestro. Would you dance with me, bass-guitar strumming god, or would you share some sherry, theatrical guru and 'art' director? Tonight I shall parade with a columnist (a brief affair, no doubt), while tomorrow I will idly chatter with a great philosopher, and write poetry when I return from the dance hall. And what harm can be done by such a life of dance? None, because one day the hall will have finished with your charms, and will cast you upon the mucky sidewalk of reality, where no golden slippers are lingering...
...Through Thursday, Nov. 5. Reservoir Dogs at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 and 10:10 p.m. Zebrahead at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:55 and 10:15 p.m. Gas, Food, Lodging at 1:10, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20 and 9:30 p.m. A Brief History of Time at 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Bob Roberts...
...with straight students, gay relationships range from long-term to brief one-night stands, say gay undergraduates. Gay students, like their straight counterparts, spend time with friends they met through shared interests and activities, they...
...When the brief flurry of televised debates ended last Monday in East Lansing, Michigan, the 1992 campaign seemed poised to return to normal, or at least toward what passes for that condition every four years in the U.S.: candidates barnstorming, crowds growing more numerous and noisy, posters and signs flapping in the cooling October sunshine. And that, on the colorful, roiling surface, is pretty much what happened; how accurate or deceiving these appearances were remains tantalizingly in doubt...