Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...front of him or on the verge of falling asleep at the wheel. They understand a command to go faster, and computers under their dashboards plot the car's exact location. They can move sideways, crablike, to park and have memories to recall seating and mirror positions...
...daybreak, exactly 72 hours before the terrorist explosion killed scores of his comrades at Marine headquarters, First Sergeant William Creech had just awakened and shuffled outside with his mirror and canteen of hot water to shave. And talk. "There's no comparison with Viet Nam," said the Georgian, at 34 older than most of his fellows. "We're here for high visibility, not to engage in combat." Life in any war zone is both tedious and desperately anxious...
...said, Newhouse shunned big dividends in order to pump corporate earnings into new acquisitions. His purchases of dailies like the New Orleans Times-Picayune and its sister, the States-Item (for $42 million in 1962), set records for the amount spent on newspapers. In 1976, Newhouse outbid Times Mirror for the Booth Newspapers of Michigan, whose holdings included the Sunday magazine supplement Parade. The purchase price of $304.5 million remains the highest ever paid in a U.S. newspaper transaction...
...just one point above the alltime low nearly two years ago. Undaunted, Ron Todd, the union delegate who had presented the unilateralist resolution, declared on TV: "I'd rather go down [in the next general election] than change the policy." It was that attitude that led the Daily Mirror, Labor's major supporter among Britain's big dailies, to observe that "only the Labor Party could still put money on a horse after the race has been lost...
...School is in a very real sense a mirror of its community," Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation told Time Magazine. "Time and time again, we saw that community support or community conditions were shaping the school. So, in a very real sense, the report card on the school is a report card on the nation." To change many of those low passes to A's, we need a better institution for funneling community support into the schools...