Word: intact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Parents question whether the toys, with so much circuitry inside, can survive a thumping trip down the stairs. And even if the gadgetry stays intact, some of the toys may be too complicated for the average child -- or parent -- to operate. At WOW's annual meeting in October, a company officer tried to demonstrate Julie but apparently forgot that the doll needed to be programmed with ten "secret words" in the owner's voice before it could answer questions. "Julie, are you hungry?" he asked. "Can we talk about your friends?" it replied. The audience was not impressed. Mattel...
...down quirky, densely interwoven neighborhoods of 19th and early 20th century low-rise buildings and putting up expensive, charmless clots of high-rises. Or, even worse, leaving empty tracts. (The resistance of Charleston, S.C., and Savannah to Great Society efforts to clear their slums accounts for those cities' remarkably intact historic districts today.) In the mid-'60s, 1,600 federally supported urban-renewal projects were under way in nearly 800 American cities. Not only in Viet Nam was the U.S. Government proposing to destroy the town in order to save...
...tendency toward the picturesque and fake rustic in today's preservation % passion. The Rouse Co.'s cleverly conceived "festival marketplace" developments in Baltimore, Boston and elsewhere can seem like sanitized movie- lot versions of real city neighborhoods. Often these days only a building's facade is kept intact and a new structure pasted on, a treacly, offensive kind of faux preservation that violates the spirit of the old as well...
...report of the interview by Tass, the official Soviet news agency, quoted Vorontsov as saying several difficulties arose late in negotiation. He said American delegates proposed that the warheads, guidance systems and rocket motors from its cruise missiles be kept intact when the missiles were destroyed...
...Washington Post last spring that Powell "was the person I used to carry out the President's directions to make the arrangements for transferring the arms to the CIA." Added Weinberger: "And it ended there." Indeed, Powell was never deeply immersed in the controversy, and emerged with his reputation intact...