Word: foraying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retreated to the sort of schematic period piece that friendly critics usually lap up, and they did. Now he has regressed further -- back to his first play, Don't Drink the Water. What's more, he has cast himself in the lead and directed it for TV, his first foray into the medium since...
Sony's Hollywood foray began, as so many sour business deals do, with bold rhetoric and grand strategies. Norio Ohga, the part-time symphony orchestra conductor who has been Sony's CEO since 1989, believed in a "synergy" between Sony's core business, producing "hardware" such as VCRS and camcorders, and Hollywood's "software" -- movies. Owning a studio, Sony thought, would help give the company the clout to set the industry standard for the next generation of digital video technology. In the early 1980s Sony's Betamax format of analog videotapes lost out to VHS, so Sony was determined...
Clinton's four-day, six-country tour, his first foray into the Middle East, taught him just how treacherous a terrain he had entered. He had hoped for a prime-time TV triumph to boost his party's midterm election chances when he seized upon the Israeli-Jordanian settlement to fly off to dramatic presidential appearances in Cairo, Amman, Damascus, Jerusalem, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He quickly discovered that the Middle East and its problems guarantee not only the world's attention but risks, surprises and, for every misstep, a potential explosion...
This season marks Harvard's initial foray into the Great Freshman Experiment. And under Coach Tim Murphy, the best players play. Right now, seven freshmen happen to merit that honor...
...added another component to TIME Online: TIME Daily, the first foray into daily journalism in our 71-year history. Compiled by editor Jim Kinsella and his staff -- Robertson Barrett, Kathleen Hayden, Waits May and Steve Mitra -- TIME Daily offers a summary of top news, often shaped with special insights from TIME correspondents around the world. The daily service has already scored some coups: it was the first media source to report that emissaries from Fidel Castro were meeting with Cuban exiles in Madrid to broker a deal between the U.S. and Havana on Cuban refugees...