Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...automotive industry is finally moving from the Iron Age to the Silicon Age," says Timothy Leuliette, president of ITT Automotive, which produces electronic and structural components for the Big Three. "No one should think of Detroit anymore in terms of steel stampings and iron castings. It's the largest consumer-electronics industry in the world. The vehicles are going to become smarter in how they stop smart, how they handle smart, and how they keep you from getting into trouble...
...since the Iron Curtain was lifted and communism banished from the Soviet bloc, the lost generations are being found. Renewed interest in Judaism is part of a broad search for spirituality that has sprung up in the desert created by the demise of a discredited ideology. ``People are coming out of the woodwork and announcing they are Jewish,'' says David Lerner, a British educator who helped found a Sabbath school in Minsk. ``Six years ago, Jews were still being beaten up in Minsk. Now there are three religious congregations, the Sabbath school, a youth movement and a voluntary welfare organization...
When the Harvard Business School Club of New York presented Baker with its Business Statesman Award in 1970, it praised him as "the quiet builder with the soft voice and iron resolve, the man who welded rather than hammered, the decision maker of the school of decision making...
This combination of quiet consideration and "iron resolve" earned Baker the respect and affection of his colleagues, Christensen said...
...wood with his fist. ``You know what really kills me?'' he asks with a bitter chuckle. ``The whole goddam reason I voted was because I'm so sick of crime and the lack of values in this country.'' Now Thomlin relies on his own solution: he keeps a tire iron in his bedroom for protection...