Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Araskog has good reason to want to shed much of the ITT communications network, particularly System 12, a computerized switching board that telephone companies use to route calls. The unit, which cost $1 billion to develop, sold well after it was unveiled in Europe in 1979, but it has turned a profit only in West Germany and Italy. Araskog thought that if he could adapt System 12 to U.S. standards, he could sell it to the regional Bell companies, which were formed after the AT&T breakup in 1984. But ITT was unable to write software that would mesh System...
Another aspect, claims a newly formed professors' lobby called Save British Science, is that "technical staff have been shed, equipment and buildings cannot be maintained and morale is destroyed by absence of career prospects." Worse yet, since 1980 Germany and France have boosted funds for new research by 30% to 40%, so that British brains have begun to drain off to the east as well as the west...
...progeny, kids found sex without commitment. Decades passed, and movie teenagers never grew up, they just grew hornier. Were these flawless bodies and voracious libidos the true mirrors of teen age? Or did kids, even those looking for wish fulfillment in the dark, want movies that shed a little light on their own lives...
...construction company's new headquarters outside Stuttgart, he has produced an improbable but marvelous synthesis. A kind of oversize trompe l'oeil portcullis, Zueblin House is monumental and yet entirely permeable, lucid but not glib. The clear, simple axes and pitched-roof profile are classical, and the expansive ectoskeletal shed seems snatched from some 19th century dream of the 20th. The building's priapic pivot alludes to Bohm's own pioneering work: the central spiraling stair could be an ancestor or descendant of the tower at Bensberg...
...analyst is now urging the contras to shed their "cia-imposed leadership." He says that it is resented by the combat troops, considered "hostile to democracy" and is damaging to the unity of the various contra factions. He believes that if the contras unite under a common political banner, with such respected democrats as Arturo Cruz and Alfonso Robelo at the top, Nicaraguans and Americans will support the rebels as a legitimate democratic resistance force...