Word: complements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, to complement the extraordinary plentitude and quality of footage, the producers conducted over 300 interviews, 100 in Vietnam. Interviewees include top brass from the period in North and South Vietnam and America, and only former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Richard Nixon and South Vietnamese ex-President Nguyen Van Thieu refused interviews. Equally important are the discussions with numerous combatants and non-combatants on both sides...
Although the organizers stress that this would not be the ultimate goal of the project, they are also considering publishing a collection of the edited theses next year, as a complement to the professors' book...
...parlor trick. Their skirts are soaring so high that no amount of hemming and hauling could help them hide those inches above the knee. Recently imported from Paris, the short, short skirt has been gleefully adopted by the avant-garde among U.S. teen-agers and coeds as the perfect complement to patterned stockings and leather boots-usually white. From San Francisco coffeehouses to Manhattan discotheques, girls are beginning to reveal more thigh than they have stocking to cover...
...doesn't care to. Last week, in his debut as the starting signal-caller, Colombo directed a well-balanced offense, as the Crimson gained 164 yards in the air and 274 on the ground. If he lets his running backs go to work again, it may nicely complement the softness of the visiting defense against the run--472 yards and eight touchdowns on the ground against UMass in two games...
While Bok has receives widespread praise for his work in expanding these nascent arrangements, national anti-apartheid groups criticize his contention that the programs are a substitute for--as opposed to a complement to--other actions, such as divestiture...