Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lowball pricing policy that keeps foreign firms out of the Japanese market. But last week a howl of protest went up in Japan when Fujitsu tried to carry out such pricing at home. The uproar occurred after Hiroshima's city government sought bids to design a new computer system. Seven firms offered to do the work at prices ranging from $2,000 to $201,000. But the winner was Fujitsu, which submitted a bid of less than a penny. The practice smacked of dumping, in which goods or services are sold below cost. Fujitsu hoped to recoup its initial loss...
Germany itself might challenge that. Even without reunification or major changes in the present alliance system, West Germany is set to become the overwhelming economic power of Middle Europe. It is already the most important Western trading partner of all seven Warsaw Pact countries. And the slow disintegration of Comecon, the Moscow-based council that brokers East bloc trade, coupled with Eastern Europe's desperate need for capital and expertise, will open up enormous new economic opportunities that West Germany is poised -- financially, geographically and politically -- to exploit. "Between the two superpowers, there shall be a union of European states...
...spot in the first period that we were doing really well," Weisbrod said, "but you can't win hockey games only playing for six or seven minutes...
MacDonald is playing hockey for Lugano, one of 10 Swiss teams in a top European hockey league. The team has captured the league championship two of the past three years and, seven weeks into this season, holds second place. MacDonald, who skates on the top line, has seven goals in his first 14 outings...
...came to Cambridge in emotional turmoil, but he took his frustrations out on the ice, scoring seven goals in his first seven varsity games before a crippling knee injury forced him to watch the Crimson from the press box. By that time, he was estranged completely from his father and has not seen him or spoken to him since. That was the hardest period of his life...