Word: result
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increased competitiveness of American firms in overseas markets comes not only from the cheaper dollar but from a dramatic streamlining of U.S. industry over the past five years. Companies have closed down outmoded factories, and are squeezing more output from those that survive. As a result, America's manufacturing productivity has risen faster than West Germany's and nearly matched Japan's increase during the past two years...
...already been met, but the grain still required could be the difference between hunger and death for millions. As the cry goes out once more for food and money, the sympathetic cannot be faulted for wondering why this is happening all over again. Is the latest famine wholly the result of cruel nature, or are other, man-made forces at work that worsen the catastrophe...
...Schlieffen, whose strategy for the westward conquest of Europe was the basis of Hitler's blitzkrieg; writers from Klopstock to Rilke, and so on. Lines signifying affiliation, as in a family tree (a whole family forest, in fact, this Teutoburg), ramble slackly between some of the characters. Pictorially, the result is a shambles, and one needs an instruction manual to decipher...
...differed. Some aimed to dissolve the government, while others demanded reinstatement of a nine-member independent electoral council disbanded by Namphy. By week's end all four agreed to call on the junta to resign. Meanwhile, many Haitians worried about the adverse financial consequences of a protracted strike. The result: two days of spotty protests that were in stark contrast to last June's successful strikes, which foiled Namphy's attempt to wrest control of the country's voting process from the electoral council. Said a factory worker locked out of his job: "The only way to strike against these...
...even kill family pets -- to bone-shattering physical violence. Worse, in about half to two-thirds of such cases, the mayhem spreads to children in the family. The death of seven- year-old Lisa Steinberg in New York City last month is widely believed to have been a result of beating by one or both of her adoptive parents. Experts think such violence is caused by stress, a history of abuse or an obsessive need for control. Says Author Fedders: "Rich men like to have the control at home that they get elsewhere. There's very little difference between...