Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese. (Japanese businessmen complain that they face a greater language barrier than Americans, since many more Chinese speak English than Japanese.) Nonetheless, it is wise for Americans to bring their own interpreter, if they can find one skilled in both the Chinese language and U.S. business terms. Misunderstandings do occur; once some Boeing negotiators, slipping into airline slang, referred to a small bulkhead in a 747 jet, where food trays or small luggage can be stored, as a "doghouse." After many blank stares, the puzzled Chinese asked, "Why design your airplanes to accommodate dogs...
Still, the intuitive flash did not occur to any of the scientific greats of the day, but to the 26-year-old patent examiner on the fringes of physics. That insight was shown in two remarkable papers that appeared during 1905 in the German scientific journal Annalen der Physik. The title of the first ? "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" ? did not begin to reflect its eventual significance. Later it would become known as Einstein's special theory of relativity...
...sees as a flash in the west followed by one in the east. If, on the other hand, the bolts had struck at different times, it could well have been the moving observer who saw them simultaneously and the man along the tracks who thought that they did not occur at the same time...
...singing in a record-your-voice booth; Janis Joplin, desperate to please, sings blues with the synthetic soul of a Broadway belter; Linda Ronstadt's coy version of a great Jagger-Richards tune might more appropriately be retitled Fumbling Dice. Thoughts of decadence and decline occur; Donna Summer appears. But then Jimmy Cliff shows up, singing The Harder They Come, and the balance is redressed. By the time the show ends, with a flourish from Elvis Costello and a blast from Bruce Springsteen, you know the future is in good hands...
...birth of the slogan itself, with whatever name, goes back to the start of history; as far back as human records occur, so do slogans. On the basis of its power alone, its potential capacity to unite people and move them toward either belligerent or peaceful goals, the slogan rates as one of man's most ingenious and economical verbal inventions. So the ubiquity of slogans in modern times is understandable, and it probably does more good than harm. Still, there is reason to wonder whether the use-and abuse-of slogans has not at last resulted...