Word: lusterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...famous letters in American business. For years the International Business Machines Corp. towered over the office-equipment industry. Then in the 1970s, besieged by Government antitrust charges and challenged by ambitious new rivals, the giant seemed to be staggering, and those three famous letters lost a bit of their luster. Was IBM's dominance in jeopardy...
HARVARD'S Commencement speech--one of the most prestigious annual lecture series in the world--had apparently lost its luster in recent years. The address has been considered an "event" unto itself--separate from the magnificent pomp that marks each Harvard graduation--at least since 1947, when the circumstance was used for the unveiling of the Marshall Plan. A recent string of prominent speakers--exiled Russian writer Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn in 1978, then-West German Chancellor Helmudt Schmidt in 1979, and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in 1980--bolstered the reputation. But extending similar invitations the following two years...
...attempt to condemn Israel for propping up a system of racial discrimination also loses some of its luster in view of the progress the sponsors have made on human rights in their own countries. Saudi Arabia recently expelled five Europeans and Americans for attempting to hold a Christian service in their home. This is not as astonishing as the reported persistence in Saudi Arabia of Black slavery, an institution legally abolished in the early 1950s...
...found New York City "a difficult place to live." He also sought a raise, after initially cutting his own pay from $80,000 to $55,000 as an austerity measure. Conceded Kinsley: "The thought of not having to deal with the Harper's board added to the luster of the job at the New Republic...
...when he was 30, Winston Churchill had already accomplished more than most men do in a lifetime. He added luster to the family name in the Caribbean as a daredevil correspondent covering the Cuban insurrection. At Omdurman, he rode in the British army's last great cavalry charge during Kitchener's campaign to reconquer the Sudan. He became a national hero by escaping from his Boer captors in South Africa in 1899. The following year he was prepared to greet the new century as a Member of Parliament, a novelist and traveling lecturer. In America, Mark Twain presented...