Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competitive spirit does not disappear, however. It is merely redirected toward competing corporations. Most Japanese spend their entire careers with a single company and develop an intense loyalty that can be even stronger than family ties. A Japanese diplomat in New York recalls what happened when his brother joined Mitsubishi Corp., the giant trading company: "Mitsubishi's competitors became his enemies, even more so than the Soviet Union." The desire to beat the opposition for the glory of his company is a powerful force that motivates the Japanese worker...
Most museums in Italy and Greece close in midafternoon, just when Americans want to visit them. The pubs in Britain seem to be closed most of the time. All the ice cubes in Europe disappear on a hot day. Driving can occasionally resemble either a safari or a Grand Prix race, depending on whether you are in the countryside of Portugal or on the Autobahnen or autostrade of Germany or Italy. Despite such hazards, few Americans appear unhappy enough to talk of packing up and going home. They can, after all, always try another country...
Judge Greene also handed down rules that will affect the cost of local telephone service. Many groups fear that the breakup of the phone company will result in higher local rates since artificially high long-distance prices have traditionally subsidized artificially low local charges. Such financial support will disappear after January, when the long-distance service is separated from the local one. Said Greene: "One of the court's principal aims throughout the public interest process has been to ensure that divestiture would not bring about or contribute to local telephone-rate increases...
...other Cambridge--the one in England--students adopt a different approach to the completion of the academic year. In contrast to Harvard students, who disappear to presumably greener pastures after handing in their final blue book the overseas Cantabrigians take some time off and linger around campus awaiting their exam results. The occasion, naturally is used as an excuse for widespread partying, a phenomenon which has attracted a fair degree of attention in certain international circles...
...merry time juggling his three weighty balls, maneuvering his characters and his audience from one house to another, from reverie to terror to awe. This is a movie where, as Isak says, "anything can happen." A nude statue can beckon to a wide-eyed boy; Fanny and Alexander can disappear from inside a steamer trunk; the ghost of Oscar Ekdahl can return home for a chat with his old, living mother. Such is the unique chicanery of movies, and Ingmar Bergman knew it long before George Lucas...