Word: meld
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chapter alone will probably not sufficiently meld the nine graduate schools into a cohesive conglomerate, council members say. Schaefer has suggested that the group ask undergraduates to join to further unify the University's students. While the council has not officially considered this proposal, Schaefer says that he has received positive feedback from his colleagues...
...upheaval go back to 1923, when the agricultural region of Nagorno-Karabakh, three-quarters of whose population is Armenian Christians, was made part of the largely Muslim Azerbaijan Republic. Claiming that they are discriminated against by the Azerbaijani majority, Nagorno- Karabakh's 120,000 Armenians have long wanted to meld their 1,760-sq.-mi. enclave into the Armenian Republic. Earlier this month officials of the Armenian Republic proposed annexing Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous backwater that produces grapes, tobacco and livestock. Moscow rejected the request...
...conservatives failed to meld their specific attacks into a true critique of prevailing Black liberal culture. Consequently, their best arguements have been appropriated by a Black liberal establishment that shows signs of new vitality...
...story like "The Sunrise" typifies the problem with all the stories in Bluebeard's Egg. The women all, somehow, behave with condescension. The men all, somehow, are satisfied with these truncated relationships. After a while the women meld together into one composite character; you forget all her temporary names as soon as you've finished the last story. She is simply the Atwood bitch...
From its conception in the late 1960s, the B-1B bomber has been a child of controversy. A breathtakingly beautiful airplane with slim-silhouette wings that meld into a fuselage that breathes speed, the swanlike aircraft is designed to penetrate Soviet air defenses, unleashing nuclear-tipped missiles at targets deep inside the country. But skeptics lampooned the B-1B -- at $283 million a copy the most expensive plane in aviation history -- as an unnecessary and probably unworkable interim successor to the aging B-52s, and in 1977 President Jimmy Carter scuttled the project. Newly elected Ronald Reagan revived...