Word: britains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Harold Adrian Russell ("Kim") Philby, whose exploits as a Soviet mole inside Britain's Secret Intelligence Service seem breathtaking enough to have been crafted by a master of the thriller genre. The son of an eccentric Arabist, Philby entered Communism's orbit while at Cambridge in the 1930s. Carefully disguising those links, he joined Britain's SIS and rose high enough in its ranks to rate consideration as its potential chief. Yet by the time he disappeared in 1963, only to surface in the Soviet Union a few months later, it was painfully clear that Philby all along...
...shares, vowed to press ahead with plans to acquire the company and its prize asset, Northwest, the fourth largest U.S. airline. The Californian's bid has raised the hackles of many Minnesotans, who are still smarting from last year's takeover of local giant Pillsbury by Britain's Grand Metropolitan...
...learned and low-key, Johnson is an ideal host for the series, which first appeared on Britain's innovative Channel 4. The author of a standard encyclopedia of wine, as well as an invaluable World Atlas of Wine, Johnson is Britain's foremost wine critic; he is admired by his peers as much for his prose as for his palate...
...ordered far more computers than factories can produce without sacrificing strict quality standards, instead of allowing the plants to set their own targets. Western economists think Moscow should give individual managers more discretion to experiment with new technologies and independent research. Says Philip Hanson, a Soviet-economics specialist at Britain's University of Birmingham: "The fundamental role of the market in weeding out unsuccessful technological processes and forcing firms to innovate is something that a lot of Soviet officials don't really grasp...
...imagine a useful century-wide show of French or American art. The subject, in either case, is too big, various, richly inflected and unwieldy to be stuffed into one trunk -- at least, without the kind of editing that amounts to severe mutilation. But 20th century Italy, like Germany and Britain, is somewhat more compressible. Italian modernism can be summarized because its achievement was small next to the School of Paris', and smaller yet beside the glories of Italy's own past. From the emergence of Giotto in the 13th century to the death of Bernini in the 17th, Italian painters...