Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dutch brewers, led by Heineken, became the top beer exporters in the mid-1970s after the Germans found themselves squeezed out of foreign markets by rising costs and the climbing value of the deutsche mark. Löwenbräu, which once exported a third of its production, stopped shipping to the U.S. last year; a version of the original Löwenbräu is now brewed and marketed in the U.S. by Miller. But over the past three years sales of foreign beers in the U.S. have doubled. Though Heineken now commands close to 45% of this booming...
Jones sings of such capers in a musky voice that slides across the lyrics, scatting between them and eliding words in vintage hipster style, as if English were a foreign language learned in a speed-speech course. For slow learners, lyrics are printed on the back of the album, and they make for some of the best new reading in pop. Still, one can appreciate the offhand confusion of Randy Newman, no small influence on Jones, and no master of elocution either. Specially imported to play synthesizer on one album cut, Newman was asked what he thought of the song...
Although Koreans call their country Choson, or Land of the Morning Calm, its history has been anything but. Subject to sporadic invasions by Chinese, Japanese and Mongols. Korea has long suffered the imposition of foreign political, religious and aesthetic traditions. Understandably, its art was long considered provincial and derivative. Spurred by archaeological discoveries of the past five decades though, historians have finally begun to recognize the Korean achievement, which Americans can now see in the most comprehensive exhibition of Korean art ever assembled...
...child's coffin: while placard-bearing children blew out candles, a parent read a statement foretelling the death of a school because the board had marked the principal for dismissal. Other nights featured debates pitting blacks against whites, those who valued music instruction against those who wanted foreign languages. It was neighborhood against neighborhood, teachers against administration, north Evanston vs. south Evanston. "We may have generated more hostility and more unfulfilled expectations by opening debate than if we had never asked for opinions," says Board Member Mary Anne Wexler, who like many others on the board began to feel...
After the Inauguration, Carter ordered the National Security Council to prepare for renewed strategic arms talks between Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The NSC drafted Presidential Review Memorandum No. 2, an interagency study of the options available to the President. There was a loose consensus that the U.S. should seal the deal Gerald Ford had made at Vladivostok, and swiftly. Then the Administration could get on with more ambitious initiatives in the next round of talks, SALT...