Word: dual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision "not to crowd the other one" is necessarily selfish. On the one hand, the decision "not to crowd" is an economic reality. The American dream of living better than our parents, or living as well as our parents, simply requires more effort today than it did. The dual-career family, which only became the norm with our parents' generation, is a reality far removed from the free-loving ideal Professor Blumenthal's youth experimented with in the '60s. And on the other hand, as a result of the gains by the Women's Rights Movement in the last...
Despite a trying childhood and the dual demands of art and political activism, Redgrave has been, by all accounts, a stable and nurturing parent. Says Joely: "Mother may have been a free spirit before we came along, but we were terribly normal and conventional as a family. Domestically, she's nothing like the force she is in acting and politics. She is not a creature of comforts. She will always take the smallest room in the house...
...Championships are not decided by dual meets, Haggerty said. We like to do as well as we can, but we learned a lot today about ourselves and the competition...
Other military experts support the establishment of an industrial policy for defense. New York City Democrat Ted Weiss, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is among a growing school of defense experts proposing "dual-use" planning by military contractors to seek commercial as well as defense applications for their research and manufacturing efforts. Such planning might help ease the boom-and-bust cycles of defense procurement. Perhaps more important, it could help stimulate the development of new high- technology consumer products, strengthening U.S. economic security at the same time defense firms are bolstering national security...
...center of the excitement was the first dual-deck videotape recorder available to U.S consumers, the VCR-2, made by the tiny Arizona-based Go-Video company. The VCR-2 enables its users to make high-quality duplicates of prerecorded tapes easily. It also lets viewers watch a tape while simultaneously recording off the air. Go-Video hopes to have a limited supply of the VCR-2 in stores by Christmastime, priced at just under...