Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington official joked, "The puppeteer now has a new puppet." Certainly Najibullah, a loyal protege of Karmal's, seems unlikely to lead his country in any radically new directions. However, having built the secret police into a disciplined, KGB-style network of 60,000 agents, the major general may bring a new intensity to the civil war with the mujahedin rebels. Najibullah is, says a European diplomat in Islamabad, "an efficient killer...
When the Navy decided to bring back the battleship five years ago, old hands could almost be heard humming Anchors Aweigh. Since then, two World War II- vintage battlewagons have been made ready for sea duty, and last week a third, the U.S.S. Missouri, was recommissioned in San Francisco as a crowd of 12,000 spectators cheered from its pier...
...herself. Sheehy, a middle-aged single mother and the companion of Magazine Editor Clay Felker, jets off to Thailand to write a story about Cambodian child refugees. There she meets Phat Mohm, 12, an orphaned survivor of Pol Pot's death marches and work camps. Arrangements are made to bring Mohm to the U.S., where she lives with Sheehy, learns to be an American and attends Gail's wedding to Clay...
...1960s under Cecilia's father Luigi, who moved the company from steel production into steel-plant engineering and construction. Luigi had four daughters, but the only one interested in the firm was Cecilia, who started in 1965 as an assistant to her father. Now 72, Luigi has let Cecilia bring in a team of financial, marketing and engineering experts to help expand the business. Since she took over, revenues have more than doubled, while increased productivity has helped her reduce the number of employees...
...before he showed his first collection for men just a year ago. He lives in Paris but commutes to Tokyo for four monthlong visits each year. His clothes, which feature sharp lines and muted colors, have a worldliness that combines Eastern ease with Western tailoring. "I have tried to bring different cultures together," he remarks. Kumagai sees contemporary Japan as an imperfect blend of the traditional and the new: "I have tried to mix them the right way. In the '80s, many designers have tried to destroy balance. I wouldn't want to remove the real balance of the human...