Word: british
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FRANCIS BACON, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington. Haunting emblems of the Age of Anxiety in the eminent British painter's distorted, isolated, sometimes silently screaming figures. Through...
...Jaguar had fought hard to go it alone. The company earned $45 million last year but lost $1.8 million during the first six months of 1989, largely because of slumping U.S. sales. Jaguar tried to fend off Ford's advances by offering General Motors a 30% stake in the British firm. But last week the British government opened the way for Ford by waiving London's legislative right to veto any takeover of Jaguar before 1991. Ford put its offer on the table the next morning. GM officials decided the price was too high and withdrew...
That's why John Weisbrod is at Harvard. Not to graduate summa cum laude, but to play hockey. The English concentrator says he's here to win national championships, not to read British novels...
...Undergraduate Council's executive committee last night voted to ask the council to reconsider backing a concert by the British pop group Squeeze--only one week after the representative body rejected an offer to sponsor the show at a higher price...
...Many British citizens now say that the UKshould follow its continental counterparts andadopt...