Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Unfortunately there are far fewer where they cannot go. One such rare route is the full, looping length of the river Seine as it winds its way through central Paris toward the English Channel. This is the waterway of kings and conquerors, of ruined abbeys, gothic trees, half-timbered farmhouses and pastoral symphonies on either bank. Until this summer, visitors who wished to savor the creamy countryside of Normandy had to cope with traffic and train schedules. But now, if they wish, they can finally take to the water and its welcome privacies. The M.S. Normandie, the first sleep-aboard...
Inspired in part by laws that designate many of Europe's prestige winemaking regions, ranging from the Medoc to the Moselle, the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) first authorized AVAs in 1978. There are now some 106 appellations, about half of them in California...
...short run, but he argued that the company's value will be evident to anyone who examines its assets. Under the earlier arrangement, the new company would have combined assets of $10 billion spread over 140 million shares. The revised agreement could spread that underlying value over about half as many shares...
...move quickly to require costly reductions in tail- | pipe emissions; the controls he did propose nationally for gasoline-driven cars are less stringent than those that California has already enacted. Use of the new fuels would require an expensive redesign. For example, because a car can travel only about half as far on a gallon of methanol as on a gallon of gas, automakers would have to build cars with bigger fuel tanks. Worse, motorists would probably not want to buy methanol cars until the fuel was widely available, and gas stations would probably not install methanol pumps until large...
...nearly half a century, Nakashima has been producing unique furniture for loyal clients. In the process, he has also built a distinguished reputation. Fellow furniture maker Sam Maloof calls him the "elder statesman" of the postwar American crafts movement; Anne d'Harnoncourt, director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, proclaims him "a national treasure." To further polish his renown, a warm and witty retrospective show of his work is now on view at the American Crafts Museum in New York City. "Full Circle" presents 43 of Nakashima's best pieces, from a battered 1944 teak coffee table to a masterly...