Word: consisted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...risks get bigger too. No longer can someone launch a company from a garage with pocket money. A new firm like Compaq Computer, which makes a portable IBM work-alike computer, spent $30 million getting started. Carving out a piece of the market is also expensive. Advertising used to consist of just a few homemade ads in electronic hobby magazines. This year some companies will spend tens of millions of dollars on publicity...
Located near the towns of Dumeir and Shimshar, the sites consist of two batteries of 12 launchers each. Spare missiles bring the total number of SA-5s to about 50. The complex early warning and tracking radars, plus the communications systems and defenses made up of less advanced batteries, are all manned and operated by Soviets. Even though the SA-5s are integrated into a Syrian-controlled air-defense network, the Kremlin has a veto over their use. So tight is Soviet control, in fact, that the Syrian Defense Minister has never been allowed to enter the bases...
...wonder they call television a medium, Comedian Ernie Kovacs once observed, since it is neither rare nor well done. Moreover, no matter how it is cooked, television often seems to consist of leftovers. Never more so than in the past few weeks, when a persistent recipe served up by the networks has been television about television. After more than 30 years, it appears, television has discovered that it, too, has a "usable past," a peculiar history that can be exploited in every sense of the word...
This was the gist of Andropov's proposal last December when he suggested that the NATO-Soviet balance of INF missiles consist of 162. British and French missiles (with no American missiles) and 162 Soviet SS-20 missiles. Andropov added that the Soviets were entitled to match future British French INF deployments with equivalent Soviet INF deployments. He also noted that the Soviet Union would insist on a balance of nuclear-capable aircraft against NATO aircraft (British, French and American as well) Last week, Andropov specifically proposed a numerical balance between the number of warheads of British French INF missiles...
THIS WAY, POR FAVOR Homeowners who employ Spanish-speaking maids and gardeners no longer have to take Berlitz lessons to communicate with them. Tell a Maid and Tell a Gardener (published by Tell-a-Maid, $2.50 each), devised by Linda Wolf, a Beverly Hills language teacher, consist of detailed checklists of chores in Spanish and English, terms for household and garden utensils and multicolored pages of cutout cards with instructions in both languages, like "Take out the trash" and "Polish the silver." The books, available at supermarket and pharmacy checkout counters, have drawn fire from some Hispanic organizations that regard...