Word: life
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Professor Ann-ping Chin offers more proof of recovery in the recent Children of China, a survey of youth in the People's Republic. "One cannot say that all China's cultural symbols and cultural assumptions were reduced to ruins," she writes. "They seem to be endowed with a life of their...
...strange how often business enterprises that seem a basic part of American life just fade away, and how soon one forgets that they were ever there. Yes, like Packards and Studebakers (or convertibles with rumble seats). Or getting one's daughter shoes at Best's, until she grew old enough for cashmeres from Peck & Peck . . . Or trying to recall the Burma-Shave signs that used to enliven those long trips before most people ever took airplanes. TO STEAL/ A KISS/ HE HAD THE KNACK/ BUT LACKED THE CHEEK/ TO GET ONE BACK/ BURMA-SHAVE...
...senior partners are being laid off when their sales volume dwindles. "Loyalty and all that kind of stuff go out the window," says an executive of a major Chicago firm that is trimming 10% of its staff. "We're looking at whether we want to carry their health- and life-insurance costs. And when several brokers go, that's one less secretary...
Three-dimensional computer graphics, the technique by which digital machines generate realistic-looking objects and move them as fast as they would move in real life, has come of age. Architects are using 3-D technology to let clients walk through buildings before they are constructed. Scientists employ it to visualize phenomena too fast, too small or too explosive to be seen firsthand. Industry is relying on it to speed up design and production cycles...
...Something Real ought to put some long distance between Snow and ditties for AT&T. "If you survive something traumatic," she says, "you are never the same again. If you survive two traumatic things, you take a quantum leap in your spiritual self. You're never the same again. Life is looking up. I am a crying towel, but thank God I can do that. I don't know where I'd be if I didn't cry at least once a week." That's the real beat beneath her new album. The faint sound of broken hearts mending...