Word: mainstays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took a more ominous turn: it singled out oil, the mainstay of both countries' economies. Iranian naval vessels shelled oil terminals at Fao island, and the Phantoms returned to bomb and rocket Basra's vast new petrochemical complex. Twenty-nine people were killed in that raid, some of them Britons, Americans and other foreign workers among a labor force of thousands. The foreigners and their families fled in cars and buses to the Kuwait border 15 miles away. "It all happened so fast," said Briton Roger Elliott. "I was just sitting there getting my truck started when...
Along with smaller cars come smaller engines and generally less safety. By 1985, the V-8 engine, which has been the auto industry's mainstay since 1954, will be virtually dead. Replacing it will be smaller power plants such as the L-4 and V-6 engines in the X-cars. Moreover, almost none of the new U.S.-made models will be larger than today's compact Ford Fairmont. Unfortunately, now that cars will no longer resemble fortresses on wheels, there will be less protection in an accident. Two weeks ago, NHTSA reported that ten out of twelve...
Control is his mainstay and he relies on the four basic pitches--fastball, slider, curve and change ("It's my favorite pitch--it's more fun to fool a batter than just overpower him.")--to get the job done. The fastball is his out pitch, the one Wark calls for in crucial situations. Ron's always had a good hard, moving fastball, even in Little League...
...real thing: not hip, because they've lived through too many passing fads. They originally tried to ply their wares in the midwest, about five years ago, but made about as much headway as Abbie Hoffman would at a John Birch convention. Now the band is a mainstay of the New York scene, having made the big move several years ago. The New York press generally slag the band off as a low-budget model of the Tubes or as genetically defected punks, but New York fans know a good thing when they...
...Organization for the Solidarity of Third World Students (OSTWS). OSTWS focused their efforts on the demand for greater Third World student input and control in the admissions process. The result was the first freshperson Minority Orientation Program in the fall of 1975. Minority orientation has proven to be the mainstay of programmatic activity which has been developed by Third World students from 1975 to the present...