Word: reflexively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consumer dollar. Against this dim background, Minolta has been a bright performer. The Japanese firm's Maxxum, which focuses automatically and sells for about $350 with a basic lens, has turned Minolta (est. fiscal-1985 sales: $975 million) into the No. 1 producer of 35- mm single-lens reflex (reflected-image) cameras, which account for a third of the worldwide camera market. "This is one of those epochmaking products that come out once in a decade," says Motohiko Kimura, director of research and information for the Japan Camera Industry Association...
...their direct action. In many ways, the President's decision was an intuitive response--his strongest suit. Such is often the case with crisis management and, indeed, with political leadership in general. History is often made, for better or for worse, by the interaction of intuition and improvisation, of reflex and opportunity. How permanently he may have altered the geopolitical landscape remains to be seen, but the President has no doubt that he did the right thing, and there is equally no doubt that most Americans emphatically, exuberantly agree...
...comrades on his solo debut, Sting chose top-flight young jazz players around the world to spur him to new heights. Seasoned by stints with such jazz luminaries as Miles Davis, Art Blakely and Weather Report, these trained-reflex young masters are fresh and brash enough to try playing with a pop star. But while the move to wed pop-rock/reggae with jazz may be conceptually daring, none of Sting's tunes foster the lyricism, relentless drive, or direct passion so potent in the best of both worlds...
Rock musicians revived the shirts again in the '70s, partly because the island of Maui became a heavy hangout and partly out of the counterculture reflex to challenge prevailing standards of taste. Today there is a hard core of fanatics who collect the shirts as if they were first editions and value them as what Eliot Hubbard, Publicity Director of CBS's Epic Records, calls "high art." Hubbard's shirt stash which, at 300 and counting, he claims is "the third biggest in the world," goes heavy on popular florals. "My tastes," he says, "run to big botanicals...
...booming exports have more than doubled its annual trade surplus, from $20 billion to $44 billion. In many cases, government initiatives to encourage imports have been thwarted by an entrenched bureaucracy, which writes and administers trade regulations. Concedes Kinuko Kubota, a noted Japanese constitutional scholar: "Our bureaucracy's conditioned reflex is to be frightened whenever it comes to American goods...