Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CONTAX G1 Look elsewhere for a point-and-shooter. This ingenious titanium beauty is a remarkable hybrid of two previously implacable classes: rangefinder and single-lens-reflex cameras. Manufactured by Kyocera, the G1 combines the compact, noiseless flexibility of a rangefinder with the auto-everything magic of SLRs--minus the blinking lights, beeping sounds and bulk. With its four state-of-the-art Carl Zeiss T* lenses, the G1 is a thoroughly modern version of the classic Leica, proof that retro is the wave of the future...
...grade for an ulterior purpose as a most serious violation of the compact of teaching. Surely this action won't go on without an appropriate response," said Dean of Yale College Richard Brodhead...
BOHDAN ZACHARY, A HOLLYWOOD producer for the cable channel E! Entertainment, has embellished his life-style with credit-card slips. He vacationed in Paris, London and Hawaii, dined at Beverly Hills restaurants and splurged on computer programs and compact discs. But Zachary, 39, recently canceled three of his four credit cards and has begun to pay off the $20,000 he piled up in plastic debt. He is also rethinking his holiday shopping list. "I'll be much more practical and much less extravagant," Zachary says. "I'll just buy things that people really need or want...
...apprenticeships for the non-college-bound workers and vouchers for the unemployed to spend on retraining. Next we need to make work pay for those at the bottom by expanding the earned-income tax credit and raising the minimum wage. And finally, we need to craft a new social compact between labor and management, one that gives workers on-the-job training as well as a share in productivity gains. This is our agenda, and it's the only one of the three that makes sense for America. ROBERT B. REICH Secretary of Labor Washington...
...your children and grandchildren!" The crowd applauds enthusiastically--as it does each time Buchanan sets up and knocks down another alleged enemy of the American worker, from trade agreements to the United Nations. Afterward, Mitchell concedes that he isn't clear exactly how Buchanan would restore the old social compact and boost his pay. But at least Buchanan understands his problem and has given him someone to blame...