Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palo Alto, Calif. Not far away, Maxim's de Pékin serves haute cuisine at $70 a head. The regiments of bicycles that clog the streets have been joined by Mercedes sedans and Japanese-made Hino tourist buses. Earlier this month, the Peking Daily (circ. 500,000) ran a photo of an attractive woman and her family standing next to a new Toyota. Thanks to an income of more than $18,000 last year, Chicken Farmer Sun Guiying had just become the first peasant in the 35-year history of the People's Republic to buy a private...
When the supertanker Amoco Cadiz lost control of its rudder and ran aground off the Brittany coast of France on the night of March 16, 1978, the result was history's biggest oil-tanker spill as well as the most costly maritime accident ever. The $15 million ship and its $24 million cargo of Middle Eastern crude were lost in the icy waters. In addition, the 68 million gal. of oil created a slick 18 miles wide and 80 miles long and polluted 130 miles of the scenic French coast, raising the cries of environmentalists around the world. Last...
...prospects. Wozniak thereupon left to help start Apple Computer. Finally, in 1980, Hewlett-Packard introduced its own personal computer, the HP 85, and followed it up with nine other models. But the products were aimed primarily at engineers, and since they were produced by five separate HP divisions, they ran different software, used three different keyboards, and were marketed in an uncoordinated manner. Result: they sold poorly. In 1983, according to Dataquest, a San Jose, Calif, research firm, Hewlett-Packard had 2.5% of the $4.7 billion market for personal computers...
...education, status, wages-and expertise-reached new heights. Although a post-Watergate arrogance infected some journalists, many others learned to operate with sensitivity and restraint. If print journalists were villains in an Oscar-nominated movie, Absence of Malice, they were the heroes in an Emmy-winning TV series that ran five seasons, Lou Grant...
...farm girl emerged, seemingly from nowhere, in a race near Cape Town last January. Striding barefoot, as she prefers, over the artificial Tartan, Budd ran the 5,000 meters in an amazing 15:01.83, shaving nearly 7 sec. from Mary Decker's world-record time. Although she runs with an unearthly determination-like "safari ants on the march," says her full-time coach, Pieter Labuschagne-her feat remains unofficial. The International Amateur Athletic Federation ousted South Africa in 1976 for its apartheid policies; the country is also banned from the Olympics...