Word: climb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faced with the imposition of sharp punitive tariffs, Japan signed the semiconductor trade agreement on July 31. But any hopes that the new accord would settle the conflict were quickly dashed. When the prices of Japanese chips sold in the U.S. began to climb, U.S. chip buyers objected, and some began threatening to take their manufacturing operations overseas. Meanwhile, slower sales abroad created a chip glut in Japan, driving Far East prices as much as 50% below the agreed-upon "fair market" values. Result: a boom in illicit roundabout sales. Large numbers of low-priced Japanese chips turned...
Dianne adjusts Bridey's costume, and then she and Bridey and Veva go under the trestle and climb a steep incline that is strewn with boulders. The footing is slippery; they go cautiously and emerge on a concrete platform that is five feet from the railroad tracks...
Ifan says of his performing, "It's a reminder of who I am inside. When I climb under one of these masks, sound changes -- I'm different. It reminds me that I'm more than just a squash player, more than an escapee from New York. It's telling me of something I should do, or used...
...small village) in the Loita Hills. The Land Cruiser travels for three hours over paved road to the dusty frontier town of Narok, then follows a rutted washboard road across an empty and chokingly dusty plain until it shifts into four-wheel drive and begins the slow climb up into the hills. It is lovely in the hills. They look somewhat like the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. Part of their beauty is their pristine remoteness. One rarely encounters a white man there...
Lincoln was the highest democratic man. By studying him, we glimpse a peak of human excellence. Small-souled men throw spit-balls at the mountain. Ignore them. Join the others embarking a climb. They may not reach the top. They may not become Lincolns. But they just might become serious human beings. That's no small distinction...