Word: move
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...name not appear. But Star Tribune editors insisted that, because the trial was open to the public, it was fair to name names. Late last week the newspaper pulled all 625,000 copies of its Sunday magazine rather than risk litigation. Considering Cohen's victory, that seemed a prudent move...
...move came after ten months of increasingly violent discontent with Ne Win's regime and with his "Burmese Way to Socialism," a system that has led to economic stagnation, food shortages and dizzying levels of foreign debt. If the resignation offer proves to be more than a ploy, it could mark an ideological sea change in Burma's government and might presage the gradual ! reopening of a country of 38 million people that has determinedly isolated itself for decades from the rest of the world...
...past Tupperware was pushed exclusively at living-room gatherings of housewives, a successful marketing strategy devised by Inventor Earl Tupper not long after he dreamed up the product in the 1940s. But as more and more women joined the work force, the party calmed down and eventually had to move. From 1982 through 1985, Tupperware's sales dropped 13.3%, to $762 million. Then last year the company, based in Kissimmee, Fla., began staging its parties wherever working women might be found. Presto: sales in the first quarter of 1988 rose 18%, compared with the same period in 1987. Moreover, Tupperware...
Ford defended his decision to pardon Nixon asbeing the right move to heal a country traumatizedby Watergate and by revelations of corruption inthe nation's highest office. Ford said thattime-considerations made his decison easier, sinceprosecution of Nixon would have been a lengthyprocess...
Stressing the need to reduce the federal budget deficit, which he called a "time bomb," Ford said it should be the next president's first priority. Ford defended the Bush campaign's pledge of not raising taxes as a prudent move while stating that a candidate should instead emphasize cutting waste in the federal bureaucracy...