Word: compacter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unspoken compact between author and reader, however, assumes that the author should more or less enjoy his journeying. Not everything about it, not the fleas and the sandstorms. In general, though, a good travel writer should like what he sees and, in the manner of a Labrador retriever who wanders, admire each new vista slightly more than the last. If not, why travel? What's the point...
...Ford, which held 22.8% of the domestic market as recently as 1978, unveiled a slimmed-down Continental Mark VII ($22,231) this month. The company has been betting heavily on its streamlined Ford Thunderbird ($13,093) sports coupe, introduced with its Mercury Cougar twin in February, and on the compact Ford Tempo ($7,557)-Mercury Topaz line that arrived last May. Ford said Thunderbird accounted for 2.6% of all U.S. auto sales in September. The Tempo-Topaz entry recorded an 88% sales gain in the third quarter, compared with the compact models Ford was selling a year...
...Boston Compact," a widely heralded educational program to provide work for local high school graduates, is a plot developed by the Vault--a powerful group of local business leaders--and the Harvard Graduate School of Education to "take children out of school and put them to work as cheap labor...
...chose to dine outside; and the little pavilion built for Mao to rest, think, write when the skies were sunny. Beyond the hills his troops had reached the coast of China, fighting on Pacific shores. On this ledge, at such a stone table, Major General Patrick Hurley signed his compact with Mao in November 1944. Both promised, with American aid, to bring to China Roosevelt's Four Freedoms and the Bill of Rights. It required only Chiang Kai-shek's consent, which never came. Nor did Mao follow through on his commitment...
...Studebaker Dictator, a model introduced in 1927 but discontinued in 1936 as jackboots began marching across Europe, car manufacturers today are careful and scientific in their selections. Ford polled 600 consumers in shopping malls to help choose Tempo and Topaz to evoke the right image for its new compact models. The company rejected nominees like Coventry, Serval and Majestic. NameLab, a San Francisco firm, employed a computer to help christen Nissan's new Sentra. The coined word derives from sentry, which implies protection, and central, which suggests moderation...