Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incredible progress made in Geneva talks and at the Iceland summit shed an entirely new light on arms policy. If implemented, the results of the talks would completely invalidate past arguments about Star Wars and past arms control theories. In one weekend, Reagan and Gorbachev cut through 40 years of Cold War, 40 years of terror and 40 years of playing with the lives of billions of human beings to concur on the fundamentals of a program to systematically eliminate nuclear arms from the face of the earth. Thank God, however, that they did not yet agree...
...sets in summer and never rises in winter. "How did the trees grow so lushly in five months a year of blackness, without photosynthesis?" McMillan wonders. Francis, now back in Australia with samples of wood, leaves and soil from the island, suggests one possibility: "It may be that they shed their leaves and just stood dormant until it became light again, and then grew like...
...virtually no chrome, not even a backseat. In fact, the new Allante (price: about $50,000) looks more like a sports car than the kind of Cadillac young, wealthy car buyers can remember their grandparents driving. But that is precisely what its creators at GM had hoped. Determined to shed the stodgy image that has caused the company to lose so many upscale U.S. buyers to Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar and other imported brands, Cadillac decided it needed a pinch of European flair. So the carmaker teamed up with the Italian design firm Pininfarina to create an entirely new model...
...currents that somehow escaped contamination. At least one survivor's good fortune involved more than plain luck. Dennis Chin of Su-Bum told reporters that he had been lying on his bed when the choking gas descended. As he gasped for air, Chin dragged himself to a windowless shed behind his house, where presumably there was enough oxygen to enable him to wait out the calamity...
...business that ranged from luggage to toys to women's clothing. Now many are discovering that their eyes were bigger than their stomach, and they are getting back to basic areas of expertise. The latest to join the trend is Chicago's Quaker Oats, the breakfast giant. It will shed its nonfood division, the Specialty Retailing Group, which accounts for 6% of the company's $3.67 billion in sales. Acting on the same impulse, Northbrook, Ill.-based Dart & Kraft (1985 sales: $9.9 billion) had previously announced that it would split into two companies. The Kraft portion will retain its name...