Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sent from Chrysler's proving grounds near Detroit to a custom auto body shop in California. There the car was rebuilt into a convertible and secretly shipped back East. When Iacocca drove it around Boca Raton, Fla., in the winter of 1981, it won instant admirers. That limited market survey helped convince him that the potential demand for a revived convertible was bigger than anyone imagined...
Three days later Italy disposed of Poland in the semifinal. Once again, the superhuman Rossi, who by now had become an instant celebrity, provided all the firepower the Azzuri needed. He notched both goals en route to a 2-0 Italian victory...
Even if glimpsed only for a moment above a surging crowd as an instant, solitary figure in white, the Pope wanted to let the faithful know by his presence that he was moved by the grinding poverty and political oppression of the region. He had heard "the heart-rending lament rising from these lands," where over the past five years, civil strife has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people, most of them bystanders in the struggle between left and right. Indeed, the region's conflicts have reaped a grim harvest of martyrs and threatened to rend...
...stock-market surge that has been making investors steadily richer since last August is also producing a crop of instant multimillionaires: owners of companies that are selling their first shares to the public. The "new issue" boom is being fueled by rising demand from investors for high-technology stocks. According to Roger Lopata, editor of the trade journal Going Public, the cash raised this quarter alone by companies making their public debut could top the total of $1.45 billion for all of last year...
...Celts have given themselves battlefield noise and nerve with bagpipes, making the "our song" of the regiment, the tribe, stirring up the blood. The pipes have their wild rhetoric. It may both stiffen and imprison the spirit. Sometimes people cannot escape from their songs. The Irish gift for the instant ballad that glorifies this afternoon's martyr will ruin a human heart and turn children into killers, the heroes of tomorrow's pub songs...