Word: goldener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divestiture plan is the most dramatic evidence so far that the golden days of corporate empire building are fading. Several other conglomerates are pursuing similar slim-down programs. Since 1983, Gulf & Western Industries has unloaded 46 companies, including its sugar and hotel businesses. In 1984, Avco got out of real estate and stopped making industrial lasers and farm equipment. R.J. Reynolds last year decided to focus once again on consumer products such as cigarettes and soft drinks and sold its shipping and energy businesses...
...Pran went to Dr. Haing S. Ngor, a Cambodian refugee whose own exploits mirrored those of Dith Pran's. Perhaps his lack of thespian training accounts for the excessive Oriental inscrutability his brings to his part. But then living in the paranoid hell of Cambodia made silence and inconspicuousness golden virtues. In fact, Ngor's most effective scenes occur when he doesn't speak at all. After Pran is exiled to a rural concentration camp, he must struggle to appear nothing more than a simple peasant. His Khmer Rouge, captors, constantly suspicious, address him in French and English, unsuccessfully attempting...
...Crimson's victory over Clarkson knocked the Golden Knights out of a tie for first place in the ECAC with...
Even the most naive freshman knows the golden rule at Harvard--money makes the University possible, and a lot of it must come from gifts every year. But sometimes the University faces ethical questions over accepting money, and these problems can create some of the most difficult and complex decisions the administration may face...
Jones said he regards the tour as a meaningful gesture on the part of the Soviet Union to present a national image to Americans. "The Soviet Union uses hockey to promote their regime," Jones said. "Their hockey team is like our golden eagle...