Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real test of Ford's bold move, though, will be consumer reaction to the new Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz. These compacts are competing against General Motors X-cars, the Chevrolet Citation and the Buick Skylark, and Chrysler's K-cars, the Dodge Aries and the Plymouth Reliant. Developed at a cost of $1billion, the Tempo and Topaz were introduced in May. As part of an extravagant rollout, the cars were launched on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Intrepid, docked at a Hudson River pier in New York City. Said Chairman Philip Caldwell...
Margaret Thatcher should serve as an example to America [June 20]. She represents many of the virtues that have faded in our nation. She is hardworking, thrifty, self-reliant and not afraid to believe in herself and her ideals. Britain's Iron Lady is as classically American as Superman...
...proved to be something more than that. Like the hero of Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, this Hawkeye is an exemplar of the American democrat, the self-reliant nobleman of nature who trailblazes into a wilderness of the spirit and emerges stronger and wiser. Alda's modern pathfinder is also very much a man of the mid-20th century: liberally educated and not reluctant to parade it, perversely triumphant in a milieu he blithely declares himself unfit to inhabit, japing and shambling after women, with a quip and an invisible cigar, like a Wasp Groucho. In later episodes...
When Satellite Based Systems begins operations overseas...no longer will transnational enterprises be reliant on national postal, telegraph and telephone authorities for any of their information needs, removing the last link in their activities susceptible to government scrutiny and action...
...preachers from the first wave of converts, and Leon established the Dani Bible Institute, which now graduates 75 preachers a year. Says he: "Our greatest success is to work our way out of a job. In all developing countries, the goal should be to teach people to be self-reliant and not to rely on the big white Santa Claus...