Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cutty Sark tall ships race sponsored by the British and American Sail Training Associations. One requirement of the race is that half of each ship's crew must be between the ages of 16 and 25. Finlay, an American who operated a sailing school in Antigua, had a complement of 28, including 13 from the U.S., seven from Britain, six from the Caribbean, one from Canada and one from Guyana...
...back the missile quota. The response: sympathy, but no deal. At week's end the Dutch announced a decision that pleased neither the U.S. nor the peace movement: if the Soviets add even a single SS-20 missile to their present arsenal, The Netherlands will accept the full complement of cruises, but in 1986 and 1987, a year and a half behind schedule. The Dutch reserved the right to deploy fewer if there is some sort of superpower arms-control agreement before then, none if the Soviet missile force is reduced. NATO's retiring secretary-general Joseph Luns...
Even Harvard professors, whose lives in the past had seemed cloistered and parochial, were beginning to break out of their mold. Numerous bright instructors in government and economics and some senior professors, together with a yearly complement of clever young law graduates serving as law clerks to such Supreme Court justices as Brandeis and Cardoza, had begun to trickle down to Washington to work for the Roosevelt New Deal--a trickle that became a veritable flood during the Second World War and one that has continued unabated ever since...
...talk of a merger immediately sparked speculation about possible buyers. Analysts say they range from First Chicago, Continental's neighbor, to foreign banks whose operations would complement rather than compete with Continental's business. Examples: Barclay's of England and West Germany's Deutsche Bank. Taylor ruled out a sale to any firm outside banking...
Lehman Brothers is expected to be a neater fit. Its investment banking and securities trading operations complement Shearson/American Express's strengths in stock brokerage. The deal also gives American Express added firepower in the battle for national supremacy for all types of financial services against such other giants as Citicorp, Merrill Lynch and Sears...