Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American companies over whelmed by imports excuse their failures by blaming foreign industrial policies. In truth, U.S. managers are often outmanaged by foreign competitors. While RCA complained in 1979 that it did not have the $200 million needed to develop a videocassette recorder, it did scrape together $1.3 billion to buy a finance company. In the meantime, RCA ceded the highly lucrative video-cassette-recorder market to the Japanese. RCA has also suffered from revolving-door management: four chief executives in six years. Bureaucracy, territorial feuds and narrow careerism afflict many large U.S. corporations...
...oysters fresh from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. But going after these oysters requires a bold spirit and a sturdy body. Most of the Chesapeake's watermen, heirs to three centuries of tradition, harvest the bay's oysters by time-honored methods. Some scrape them off the bottom with dredges towed behind graceful, sail-driven skipjacks. Some haul them up with mechanical dredges. Many pluck them off the bottom with unwieldy 18-ft.-long tongs...
WATCHING STANLEY JAFFE'S Without A Trace is like watching a professor scrape a piece of chalk on the blackboard: you want to see what he's going to say, but the method gives you an uncontrollable urge to turn away and leave. In Without a Trace, Jaffe's style of filming and connecting the plot often deters from his poignant and broadly applicable theme...
...Scrape of feathers against the box. The self gathers bravely, before dispersion inland, burial in a cabbage patch...
BARBAROSA FRED SCHEPISES NEW FILM, is a wonderfully subtle and sly exploration of the two basic elements that have always defined the great westerns, land scrape and legend. The vast desert expanses dwarf the figures riding across them, and likewise, the big myths of the West have always swallowed up the real actions of those figures Unfortunately, in recent Westerns both elements have been undermined. The legends have been pulled out of glorious iconic two-dimensionality and reduced to human levels, and the landscape have been deflated from three-dimensional grandeur into a series of all-too-familiar picture postcard...