Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...host who bounded out of the house to greet me." The author's wife Natalya and their son Stepan, 15, listened in as Aikman conducted the 2 1/2-hour interview in Russian. When it was over, Aikman was invited to share an informal family lunch: Russian blinchiki (crepes stuffed with ground beef) prepared by Natalya...
...government blames every adversity on the eight-year war against the contras, which ground to a halt when the U.S. Congress cut off military aid in 1988. The conflict did exact a terrible price. Some 23,000 persons were killed and twice that many injured, many of them civilians. The bill for destruction of property hovers around $12 billion. Then in 1988 Hurricane Joan compounded the pain, causing more than $800 million in damage. On top of that, the U.S. trade embargo initiated in 1985 has paralyzed the economy...
Time disagreed on the ground that Warner shareholders would not be voting as a controlling group in the corporation. Allen concurred: "I am entirely persuaded of the soundness of the view that it is irrelevant for purposes of such determination that 62% of Time-Warner stock would have been held by former Warner shareholders." In fact, he added, "neither corporation could be said to be acquiring the other. Control of both remained in a large, fluid, changeable and changing market...
...Miata is a rolling rebuke to Detroit, which has continued to lose ground to Japanese automakers amid slumping car sales. Mazda spent only about $100 million to develop the Miata, a fraction of what U.S. manufacturers typically spend to bring out a new model. For one thing, the Miata is devoid of digital display panels, electronic suspension and other costly gewgaws favored by Detroit's Big Three. Instead, Mazda lavished attention on Miata's engine, a 1.6-liter, four-cylinder model that uses more valves per cylinder (four instead of two) to provide greater zip. Mazda also focused on such...
...much more of a break. The February system -- if you can call it that -- never even got established before it already started to collapse. It was collapsing from week to week. The October coup only picked up the power that was lying on the ground and that belonged...