Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ethics hover around much of his work; it was no accident that in Atlantic Brief Lives, a biographical compendium, he chose to write about Søren Kierkegaard. The existentialist, Updike noted, works "with flirtatious ambiguities, elaborate deceits and impersonations, fascinating oscillations of emphasis, all sorts of erotic 'display...
...designers came up with a sunburst shining through the word SUN, the symbol that for almost a year has been appearing on oil drills and storage tanks, trucks and hard hats, check forms and stationery, as well as magazine and television advertising. Employees are beginning to display the sunburst on T shirts and tote bags, and SUN workers at a subsidiary in Dallas have sewed the logo on a flag that flies from their building...
...RARE DISPLAY of rank and file truculence, members of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) this week overwhelmingly rejected a contract negotiated for them by their leaders and the federally subsidized Chrysler Corporation. Chrysler workers had a simple reason for their resounding "no" vote: After working three years under a 1979 "bailout" contract-- which saved the company over $1 billion in wage reductions--the 50,000 men and women still employed by the shrunken auto maker feel entitled to more money...
...League standards, the display might seem a little extravagant, but the Hanoverians feel the commotion is justified...
...Hong Kong, where the most authoritarian portrait on public display shows the eyes of an anonymous Asian woman commanding citizens not to litter, the rising if still distant threat of reunification has hit like a typhoon. After Thatcher's visit, share prices on Hong Kong's stock market crashed 21% last week, while the Hong Kong dollar dropped by 4½%to U.S. $0.16, a new low. To deepen the gloom, Hong Kong's Financial Secretary, John Bremridge, announced last week that the colony's economy has been faring far worse this year than expected. Real...