Word: mite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dynamo behind the little machine is something of a mighty mite himself. Short (5 ft. 4 in.) and stocky, the Polish-born Tramiel is hot-tempered, keeps his executive echelons in turmoil, avoids photographers (colleagues have dubbed him "the Howard Hughes of computer dom") and calls himself a "graduate survivor." During World War II he was sent by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After Soviet troops liberated the death camp, he worked for the U.S. Army repairing type writers. Then he went into business on his own, eventually getting into the manufacture of pocket calculators...
...world's largest supplier of photographic equipment to the multibillion dollar amateur market, took a giant step toward the elimination of misbegotten pictures. The company's solution is a compact new camera called Disc. Said Modern Photography Contributing Editor David Eisendrath after trying the photo mite: "It is virtually idiot proof...
Acker used such tactics as chairman of Air Florida to build that airline in just four years from a tiny carrier serving only cities in Florida to a Might) Mite that flies to Washington, New York London and Amsterdam. He turned Air Florida into a paradigm of what the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 was supposed to foster: increased competition, more flexible fares and easier entry for newcomers or smaller carriers into markets long dominated by the major airlines...
...friends the Iranians are a mite edgy about the fact that Alexander the Great has been summoned to Washington, no one will blame them. The last time Mr. Great dropped in on Persia, he took it, and even now, 2,300 years later, his power is formidable. These days it resides in objects-cups, armor, coins, earrings as huge as civilizations-all aglow like ideas in the gray, composed rooms of Washington's National Gallery of Art. The exhibition of Macedonian and Hellenistic art-paid for in part by Time Inc. -is called "The Search for Alexander." It opened...
...housewife pauses while vacuuming the rug. Her drawl is as broad as her smile, as she declares herself "proud" to be from the "Bible Belt." But she is a mite disturbed about all those ministers meddling in politics. "Jesus didn't tell us there was only one Christian way to think politically,"she says. ";If my preacher and I don't tell anybody how to vote, then nobody's going to tell us how to worship. That's the American way, isn't it?" View ers who agree are invited to phone or write...