Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After months of groundwork, negotiations came to a head last November. Following a meeting with Machel in the Mozambique capital of Maputo, Crocker's deputy, Frank Wisner, flew to South Africa with a message for Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha: the time was ripe for bilateral talks with Mozambique. The discussions set in motion the exchange that led to last week's formal accord...
...make matters more complicated, an individual's susceptibility to these factors depends on inherited traits. Thus, while a fatty diet and smoking may mean early death for one man, another can puff away, gorge on steaks and banana splits and still live to a ripe...
There is little sense in double rigs with theoretical weight equal to those of 45-foot trailers, but with 11 tempting feet of extra cargo space. These trucks provide a ripe opportunity for the unscrupulous trucker--and more than one-quarter of them are unscrupulous--to overload in pursuit of bigger profits. The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 deregulated the industry, finally making it a competitive one--and 3000 new carriers seized the opportunity to grab permission to run on 36,000 new routes in 1983. The competition is brutal; the railroads have moved in to grab back a full...
...this point, Khomeini will come under public pressure to relax political measures and to raise economic conditions to peacetime standards. It should be close to impossible for him to meet these standards. And with troops returned from the front on hand near the capital, the time will be ripe for a military coup d'etat...
William Hambrecht: Green Thumb. Hambrecht feels a great sense of accomplishment when he picks a bunch of ripe, juicy Zinfandel grapes from his 140-acre vineyard in Sonoma County, Calif., or clips a dazzling orchid in his San Francisco greenhouse. "I like to grow things," he says...