Word: majored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rhetoric right in December demonstrated the changing role of American Jewry. When one of the quintet, Menachem Rosensaft, returned from the Stockholm meeting with Arafat, an effort was made to oust him as head of the Labor Zionist Alliance and member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. He survived the attempted purge, and remains a vehement critic of Likud policy. "I am particularly troubled," he says, "by the arrogant position that they do not have to come forward with anything constructive...
...aircraft manufacturer Fokker a decade ago, he predicted the little company would survive only "if it dares to start digging in the front garden of the American airplane manufacturers." Never has the garden been greener than now. With U.S. airlines expanding their fleets and replacing aging jets, the two major American aircraft makers, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, have enough orders to keep them busy through the early 1990s...
...backlog has created a perfect opening for Fokker, which started producing the compact Fokker 100 jetliner in 1987. The company scored a major coup last week when American Airlines announced plans to buy 75 Fokker 100s, to be delivered in the next six years, and an option to purchase 75 more later on. The American deal, worth as much as $3 billion, is the largest foreign contract ever won by a Dutch company...
...hometown Cincinnatian too enthusiastic ever to walk to first base, Rose arrived in the major leagues as a flat-topped Reds second baseman whom Mickey Mantle rechristened "Charlie Hustle." Through 24 seasons at five positions, Rose devoured the game with such a primitive pleasure that people said he had skipped his true generation. Usually sliding on his stomach, he inched closer and closer to the dustiest of legends until in 1985 he passed Ty Cobb in total hits and kept on going to a record 4,256 hits and 3,562 games. Then he became the legend...
Despite repeated furious attacks, mujahedin rebels were no closer to capturing the city of Jalalabad last week. They seemed to be suffering from disorganization as well as an inability to pull off major assaults. In one battle last week, rebel artillery pounded the Soviet-backed government's positions at the city's airport for hours at a time, but the several hundred guerrillas who mustered to rush the defenses never got going -- the attack bogged down under return fire and arguments within their own ranks over how to attack across several hundred yards of open ground...