Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite Japan's formidable track record in marketing to the U.S. consumer, American computer executives are downplaying the Japanese challenge. Says Radio Shack Vice President Jon Shirley: "They don't understand office automation, small business computing or have a clear grasp of the applications these machines are used for." Adds another top industry official: "I don't think the Japanese have ever faced this kind of competition in a particular market. We've got a very, very strong industry with extensive distribution, software support and computer experience...
...authorities like Wilhelm Reich and other fringe types who rely on each other for corroboration and consequently get discarded en masse, but Wilber also anchors his theory with some powerful ideas from the safe thinkers, such as Freud, Levi-Straus, Durkheim, Chomsky and that old mystic. Hegel Wilber's grasp on the bannister of western social science is too tight to dislodge, so if the existing regime kicks him down the stairs, he takes the stairs with...
...Bakker's faith in God and man, though reduced to the proportions of cars and boats, is not based on greed. Like the cargo cults, the South Sea islanders who worshipped the army transport planes that bought unimaginable riches of K-rations and surplus hardware, the Bakkers grasp best the material manifestations of the divine. Welfare checks number not among such miracles: "Why can't man throw money at his problems? Because God wants things to be in accord with His will... We're tired of all the hype. We want to go back to old foundations." When God speaks...
What both Mr. Pattullo and Mr. Engelmayer had to grasp is that "exclusive homosexuality" is rarely, if ever, a matter of choice. A person's sexuality, whether environmentally or genetically determined, is a fixed and integral part of his or her personality from an early age Discrimination based on sexual orientation is as heinous as any other form of arbitrary discrimination. When such discrimination is advocated as a social good by an officer of the University, much more than freedom of speech is at stake for a large segment of the student body...
...Schlitz Brewing Co., currently the third largest brewer, has a shaky grasp on that rung. Once the largest selling beer in America, Schlitz lost that position in the 1950s to Budweiser, then lost even more ground in the 1970s when it changed to a faster brewing process that yielded an inferior brew. Schlitz later returned to the original formula, but it has yet to win back all its beer lovers...