Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over these past two episodes in the 135-year saga of the Cup, Americans had to learn from Australians the infinite possibilities not only of 12-meter boats but of ingenuity itself. Somewhere along the U.S. line, as Enterprise begat Courageous begat Freedom begat Liberty, revolutionary breakthroughs had been luffing. Then, in 1983, influenced by Dutch technology, a child of the Outback named Ben Lexcen devised a winged keel for Australia II that altered everything. Ultimately developing wings of his own, Conner agrees, "It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science...
...slimming exercise already begun by ITT Chairman Rand Araskog. Since 1980, Araskog has sold off more than 100 businesses, and last year he cut ITT's work force by 100,000, or 44%, and slashed headquarters staff from about 850 to 350. Says Araskog: "Corporate executives have to learn to do things for themselves. Pick up the telephone if it rings. Draft their own memos...
...stuffy British parlors and subtle jabs at clumsy American diction--but the picture plays like a second-rate TV drama. Wrapped up in the perceived all-importance of his plot, director David Drury neglects such film elementals as character development and cinematography. Although the picture revolves around Mullen, we learn next to nothing about him as a person, save what can be gleaned from his decor (most notably graced by classical records and a synthesizer...
...feel I'm really raw in high jumping because I really just started jumping well about a year ago and I feel like there is so much left to learn," Sugrue said. "I always have the idea in the back of my mind of mind of giving it a year...
...there to learn as much as I could and to share my views with the Minister of Agrarian Reform," Thomas says. "But I certainly do not have the impression that when Harvard talks Aquino [necessarily] listens...