Word: propell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neglects the weight good Sino-American relations have already had in world affairs--such as the force China lent to world outcry against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In addition, denigrating the importance of mainland China ignored the possibility that its natural resources and fairly well-controlled masses could propel it to a position of world power...
...network people read these tea leaves; they were too busy sipping champagne. This was, after all, the year of Roots, the twelve-hour mini-series that earned the highest ratings in TV history and helped propel ABC to No. 1 status for the first time ever. It was quite a coup for Fred Silverman, ABC'S programming chief, and in 1978 NBC, which had slipped to a gentleman's third place in the ratings, hired him as network president. By 1981 Silverman had pulled off an even more spectacular feat. He had demonstrated that with enough hard work...
...obscure color of dreams, and in fact the murdered man's dream becomes the key to solving the crime; the psychiatrist succeeds where the police have failed. The discovery parallels the structure of the film, since character exploration, not a succession of shoot-outs or chase scenes, propel plot...
These sources of dynamism, agreed TIME'S economists, will help propel Asia in the future as they have pushed it in the past. But there are new challenges...
...long-running dispute between the U.S. and its Western European allies over Washington's sanctions against the Soviet natural gas pipeline. The shipment amounted to an open French challenge of the U.S. embargo: each of the crates contained a French-made and U.S.-designed compressor that will help propel Siberian gas through the 3,000-mile pipeline. It was the first delivery of such pipeline equipment by any Western supplier...