Word: forward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while I constantly berated the first-yearexperience and sought my own niche with olderfriends, he spoke about the importance of thefirst year, about how much he missed having been afirst-year student at Harvard, about how much Ihad to look forward...
...North Atlantic near Iceland, marveling at the dramatic Arctic scenery. Just after midnight on their ninth day out -- it was foggy, yet still light in the land of the midnight sun -- the 25,000-ton ship struck a partly submerged ice floe. Three gashes opened in the starboard forward hull below the waterline, one of them 18 ft. long...
What riles Joe Heitz involves a subject that mystifies many oenophiles, even though millions of marketing dollars are affected: American Viticultural Areas, often informally called appellations. Heitz is prominent among the winemakers who are fighting a proposal put forward by many of his neighboring vintners that would designate new AVAs within the Napa Valley. As the nation's most prestigious wine-producing area, the lush valley north of San Francisco is entitled to an AVA, which Napa's wine producers proudly display on their labels. But partly because the valley's vineyards have proliferated from 40 in the early 1970s...
...three-dimensional chess game, with the winner destined to become king of the global media board. Rumors and speculation ran wild, and stock prices gyrated, as directors of Time met last Thursday and early Friday to consider the hostile $10.7 billion takeover offer that Paramount Communications had put forward the previous week. After deliberating for ten hours on the 34th floor of the Time & Life Building in Manhattan, the board approved a double-barreled response that demonstrated Time's determination to complete its merger with Warner. Declaring that Paramount's $175-a-share bid was "not in the best interests...
...machine's move from freeze-frame to fast-forward has not been easy. For starters, Go-Video could find no Japanese companies, which control manufacture of crucial VCR parts, willing to provide needed components. For another thing, U.S. movie studios opposed the machine. So the company sued 15 Japanese and Korean makers, plus the Hollywood studios, claiming restraint of trade. Several manufacturers have now settled with Go-Video, and Korea's Samsung is tooling up to produce the VCR-2. Meanwhile, Hollywood has modified its opposition because Go-Video agreed to install circuitry that will prevent the VCR-2 from...