Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard (4-0) jumped out to a one-length lead in the first 500 meters, but Navy hung close until the final 500 meters of the race, where the Crimson sprinted to the final eight-second margin of victory...
...since the midi-length fiasco nearly 20 years ago has there been such miscalculation by designers and manufacturers. Perhaps they were bored, spoiling for a chance to make a dramatic statement. Perhaps they misread the trend over the past two or three years to raise hemlines slightly, to somewhere around the knee...
...newsletter. "No serious executive female wants to look like Tina Turner when she goes to work." Millstein is among several commentators who point the finger at Women's Wear Daily Editorial Director John Fairchild, perhaps the most powerful voice in American fashion, especially among buyers, for pushing the short length too hard. Ordinarily a fast, feisty man with an opinion, Fairchild was not talking last week...
...only beginning. The company will break ground this summer for a $2 billion Euro Disneyland near Paris, which is expected to open in 1992. At the Florida park, Disney is building $1.4 billion worth of new attractions. In animation, the company aims to release one new feature-length fantasy every year, an ambition Walt never achieved. Two are due in 1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? in June and Oliver and Company at Thanksgiving time. And coming to a mall near you is a Disney Store in which the company will sell thousands of licensed products, ranging from Rock Around...
Over the years, the basic instruction sets grew in length, as miniaturization allowed computer designers to etch more circuits into silicon chips. The most advanced microprocessors began to resemble state-of-the-art calculators that could compute everything from square roots to compound interest at the touch of a button. By the time Digital Equipment introduced its best-selling VAX 11/780 computer in 1977, the machine's instruction set had swelled to 304 commands...