Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...child's play. Los Angeles-based Metromedia Technologies uses computers to convert photos or other artwork into billboards up to 17 ft. by 54 ft. within just six hours. Another company, Torrance-based Computer Image Systems, is creating a 41-ft. portrait of Liza Minnelli that will rise this week over New York's Palace Theater...
Rather than escape, Walesa tried to come to grips with Poland. The book charts Solidarity's rise, beginning with the watershed 1980 Gdansk strike he led. "I compare Polish society after August 1980 to a beggar who lives in a + corner of a lovely house which he does not own, and then suddenly he finds that he has owned it all along." The joy was short-lived. Solidarity was suspended after martial law was declared in December 1981 and outlawed one year later...
...author chides his subject for the "Poor Richard" pose he so often adopted toward his struggles. In fact, his meteoric rise was as much a product of good luck as of hard work. Nixon entered the House during a brief, aberrant period of Republican control, when choice committee assignments were being handed out to eager freshmen. His Red-scare tactics benefited immensely from the awful example of Senator Joseph McCarthy: "McCarthy's charges were so extreme, his inability to back them up so obvious, that he made Nixon look like a scholar and statesman in comparison." The outbreak...
...statesman to worldwide prominence. Television producers are a good deal more cautious. If every one of those 26 people has to give an + opening statement, which may be necessary to preserve decorum, and the first witness is the pedantic Robert McFarlane, as is now expected, a countrywide snore may rise in the first few hours...
More and more young adults are going home to live with their parents. Reasons: a rise in the marriage age and the high divorce rate...