Word: feet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mississippi River from New Orleans, and an editor of a soon-to-be mimeographed school paper called Your Side. Five years before that she had reached this country from Viet Nam, with no command of English. Having come so far so quickly, she thought the world was at her ! feet -- until Principal Eldon Orgeron saw the paper and banned...
...zolotnik and the funt for weight. So why do Americans cling to such archaic units of measurement as the pound, bushel and inch? Our system of units, a modification of the so-called British imperial system, which even Britain has largely abandoned, is complicated. Converting from inches to feet requires dividing by twelve, (quick, how many feet is 97 inches?); going from pounds to ounces calls for multiplying by 16. By comparison, the metric system is a breeze: just move the decimal point, and, presto! five meters equals 500 centimeters equals .005 kilometers...
...straight to the heart of his concern: the Soviet Union's bureaucracy- burdened economy. With characteristic candor, the Soviet leader faulted his predecessors for entrenching a system that promoted inefficiency, hampered industrial growth and destroyed national morale. Only "radical reform," he insisted, could put the economy back on its feet. In a challenge to his conservative critics, Gorbachev declared, "The possibilities of socialism . . . will be judged precisely by the progress and results of our restructuring campaign...
Most of dance's immortals write their greatness in air. Fred Astaire's is forever captured on film. But when he died last week at 88, that consolation was dimmed by the knowledge that the culture that produced him -- especially the songwriters whose work gave wings to his feet -- was gone too. He, alas, lived to see the future -- and it was a subliterate, flash-cut music video...
...report said 573 police were injured. There was no word on civilian casualties, but they were believed heavy because many people were seen hurt by police firing tear gas canisters or by squads trained in martial arts who pounded demonstrators with fists and feet...