Word: move
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that may be only the beginning of video's move into the jet age. Coming soon from Air Video of Toronto is a small-screen computer-game unit built into a seat tray table. The system, which is expected to be offered on some Canadian Airlines flights this fall, will enable passengers to play two to three games, ranging from chess to variants...
Icahn's next move? "I haven't made up my mind yet," he insists. Icahn may have trouble raising the money to boost his $12.5 billion offer. He could hold his 14.8% stake and collect more than $100 million a year in dividends. Or he could sell and earn a profit of more than $500 million...
...beginning to ring with talk of new ideas. The discussions are part of a consensus-building process called nemawashi, whereby all sides of an issue are aired. Only then can agreement be reached on the proper course of action. Once the Japanese make up their minds, though, they can move very fast. The country's astonishing growth since World War II resulted from a national resolve to rebuild the ravaged economy...
...past year, Tokyo has spurred consumer demand at home and relied less on exports to fuel its economy, thus blunting charges of predatory trading practices. But Japan continues to refuse to allow the yen to be used as an international reserve currency, a move that would help protect nations that trade with Japan against wide foreign-exchange swings...
...Middle East proposing peace can be a dangerous move. That lesson was forcefully driven home last week when bitter feuding broke out among Palestinian factions over an unusually conciliatory statement written by Bassam Abu Sharif, chief spokesman for Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. Abu Sharif's key proposals: 1) direct negotiations between the P.L.O. and Israel over a future Palestinian state, and 2) a referendum in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to prove that their Palestinian populations recognize the P.L.O. as their legitimate representative...