Word: brights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highly regarded head of the nation's eleventh largest industrial corporation, 53-year-old Lyman Hamilton Jr. had a future that appeared to be bright and secure. Yet the affable, mild-mannered president and chief executive officer of ITT had just returned from a three-week swing through the Pacific last week when, with stunning swiftness, the board fired him. The year's most astonishing management shake-up showed just how little job security there...
Ruhollah was by all accounts a bright child. He loved to play soccer and has retained an interest in the sport; he occasionally watched soccer matches on TV during his four-month exile in Neauphlele-Château, outside Paris, in 1978-79. He attended Koranic school in Khomein, and was later sent to Arak to study under a well-known Islamic scholar, Abdul Karim Haeri. In 1920, when Haeri moved to Qum and established the famed Madresseh Faizieh, a center of Islamic learning, Ruhollah went with him. Except for his years in exile, Khomeini has lived and taught there...
...bright side, the size of the latest blowout implies a major new find by Pemex. Director General Jorge Diaz Serrano estimates that the immediate area contains as much as 800 million bbl. of top-quality lightweight crude and "will considerably increase Mexico's oil reserves." Before this strike, the country's proven reserves of oil and gas stood at the equivalent of 40 billion bbl., well above those of both Venezuela and Nigeria but still far below Saudi Arabia's 160 billion bbl. Though Mexico is not a member of OPEC, it took a page from...
...very end of the play, after each couple has been united, the actors--in stark white or black costumes till then--remove their robes to reveal bright, almost dayglo renaissance costumes. Like the discarded scripts at the beginning, Sellars undoubtedly meant this touch to say to the audience, "This is what I could have done, but that would have been boring...
Things happen, of course, but only up to a point. The professor, perhaps inevitably, finds himself outgrown by the Iowa maiden, who does not share his reticence about reaching out for life. The Washington careerist, "bright but not too bright" and full of muddled optimism, glimpses the fact that the convergence theory of history, as applied to the evolution of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., is bad news because it is turning the world into a wall-to-wall bureaucracy. "We are not completing anything," the Soviet says. "And we are not being used up in order for anything...