Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still feel the atmosphere is ripe for these problems...in essence it's ignored," Walters said. As part of her lawsuit, Walters demands that procedures and guidelines be established regarding sexual harassment...
Despite its size and the popularity of its products, General Foods has been viewed as ripe for takeover, in part because of its generally lackluster management. Cruising in the food industry's slow lane during the past five years as its competitors stepped up marketing efforts, the firm's sales growth averaged less than 4% from 1979 to 1984, while the rest of the industry was setting a 10% to 12% pace. Earnings slipped sharply during the quarter ending in June, falling to $77 million from $111 million a year earlier. Says William Leach, an analyst with Wall Street...
Vocal quality was high throughout: Tenor Rene Kollo's sturdy Siegfried, Bass- Baritone Walter Berry's crafty Alberich, the ripe Fricka of Mezzo-Soprano Hanna Schwarz in Das Rheingold. A delightful bonus was the Walkure Fricka and Gotterdammerung Waltraute of Vienna-born Mezzo Helga Dernesch, who some years ago was an important Isolde and Brunnhilde. Combining her still considerable power with a riveting dramatic presence, Dernesch gave a lesson in Wagnerian artistry. Conductor Edo de Waart was too often cautious when he should have been impetuous, but he roused himself in Gotterdammerung to deliver a reading of surge and sweep...
Dylan would complain about his songs getting picked over, like berry patches, for a few ripe quotes, but back then he seemed to be not only the guy who knew better than anyone else what was going on, but the guy who was making it happen. He was imitated by everyone, including the best: the Beatles, the Stones. Then he lay low, losing himself in uncertainty and mysticism. His last great album, Blood on the Tracks, was released in 1975, and since then he has been looking for his way: a route out and a road back. There were wonderful...
Harvard protesters, who escalated their activities this spring as well, say a number of factors made 1985 ripe for protest. Increased media coverage of apartheid--and of Black resistance to it--fueled student hatred of the white minority regime. While students may have known something about the system, activists say, this was the spring that the injustices there jumped off of news pages and TV screens...