Word: shieding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most readers of Playboy and Penthouse are between 18 and 35 years of age, come from higher-income families and have one or more years of college-exactly the male market most sought by Madison Avenue. Caught in a conflict between opportunity and conscience, or perhaps just worried about what...
Arbitrary Borders. Initially, Mobutu's Western supporters shied away from getting bogged down in another Congolese war. Belgium, France and the U.S. sent token military supplies last month-and hoped the threat would just go away. It did not. The Katangese occupied much of the copper-rich Shaba area...
Cut-Rate Action. Shoppers shied away from items of total uselessness, such as the "Pet Rock" of last year, and spent their money on gifts of genuine utility or entertainment. Korvette's in New York sold 30,000 video-game consoles, which turn home TV screens into playing "fields...
Wary Voters. Still, Japanese voters remain wary of radical alternatives. Among the strongest evidence of that was the pounding the Communists took at the polls. Voters apparently shied away from giving them real power as the L.D.P. weakened. Indeed, last week's most striking gains were scored by the...
In dealing with Waterloo, Keegan argues that the battle was decided less by Wellington and Napoleon than the enormous confusion that enveloped the 70,000 troops on each side: blinding smoke, choking fumes, ear-shattering noise. Again and again, French cavalry attacked standing squares of British infantry and were driven...