Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...research director for AGRI Industries, an association of low cooperatives, "will make a big difference News of a major new purchaser is bound to have a psychological impact on the market, and it will bring in buyers from other nations more aggressively.'' The only cloud on the horizon is the nagging poor weather-either too much or too little rain-that continues to plague patches of the Midwest and may affect the price of grain over the next few months. Observes Conrad Leslie, a Chicago commodities analyst: "The Soviets are going to be watching the weather...
...Baghdad, a line of barrage balloons designed to foil low-flying aircraft floated placidly above the city. With the sun hovering low on the horizon, the jets had appeared suddenly out of nowhere. When the bombs dropped, there were muffled explosions. As guests arrived at the Italian embassy to celebrate the host country's national day, some speculated that the detonations might have had something to do with the nuclear establishment. In downtown Baghdad, in the suqs (marketplaces) and along the riverbanks, no one seemed to notice. No antiaircraft fire was heard until an hour later. The city went...
...American corporation is accused of having a short-run time horizon...
...everyone, workers and managers, is basically on his own when it comes to economic success, how could anyone expect the American corporation to have a long time horizon? If each individual foresees that he will be with the firm for only a brief period, then it should come as no surprise that the corporation has an equally short time horizon in its planning...
...weakish special effect or even stock footage as long as their emotions are engaged. "If it gets dreary, then they notice," he says. In Raiders, only sharp-eyed cineasts will know that a shot of a DC-3 flying in the Himalayas was bought from the remake of Lost Horizon or that a 1930s street scene came from The Hindenburg...