Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ships and packed off to the New World. Communication between people who spoke diverse African languages was impossible until the growth of a common language based on the one language to which all the slaves that were shipped to North America were exposed--English. Black English is therefore a hybrid of African and English vocabulary and grammar...
...England re-releases of Mary Welle's "My Guy released in 1964 and Little Eva's Locomotion from roughly the same era each occupied places on the top ten. The Monday Blues's "knights in White Satin" was number one in Boston My favourite AM hat was a hybrid of The Breathless early period and vintage Free called "Go All the Way" sung by a group from Cleveland called Raspherries Meanwhile three powerful progressive artists Van Morrison Rod Stewart and the Band had each released new albums...
Only a child that familiar with adversity, contend critics of the saxophone, could have foisted such a contraption on an unsuspecting world. A hybrid of the brass and woodwind families, the instrument is the perennial Cinderella of serious music. Its rich, sometimes dozing sound has never found a permanent place in the symphony orchestra, although after its invention in 1840 such French composers as Berlioz and Massenet experimented with it. In Germany only Richard Strauss, whose Domestic Symphony included a quartet of saxes, regarded it as anything but a yeoman of military bands...
...commissions, the SEC settled for a slightly altered version of the present hybrid system. Brokers must now bargain on commissions with customers who make trades worth more than $300,000, a slight cut from the previous minimum of $500,000. The SEC plans to reduce the cutoff point gradually to $100,000 by April 1974. Congressman Moss, on the other hand, wants to abolish fixed commissions entirely and have fees bargained between broker and investor on every trade...
...present, Xerox and IBM are only in the early rounds of the battle, but it is already proving costly. Each has been forced into an expensive invasion of the other's special turf. In order to acquire the necessary technology to produce an eventual hybrid system, Xerox has had to go into the computer business, and IBM has had to produce photocopiers. IBM has been the more successful, though neither has done especially well...