Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South African customers. Word of Kodak's withdrawal came one day after a three-week strike ended at a GM plant that is being sold to local managers and on the same day that Hong Kong announced new sanctions. At week's end Canada-based Bata, a major shoe manufacturer, said it would sell its South African operations to foreign investors...
...Dixie Democrats: he is such a fan of the military that aides boast there is not a single major weapons system for which he did not vote money during his 14 years as a Congressman. Breaux, a smooth-talking, good-looking Cajun, is a campaigner of the old shoe- leather school. His election to replace retiring Democratic Senator Russell Long came after a 19-month drive during which he sometimes scheduled as many as a dozen events a day. Says the 42-year-old Breaux: "I love campaigning...
...shoe was on the other foot. Republican incumbents, who won by narrow margin in 1980, were seeking re-election in less favorable times. With so many poised so close to the brink it came as no surprise when many of them went over. But collectively, the Democrats led the Republicans nationally by less than half a million votes, taking just over 50 percent of the total vote. The Democrats lost 12 seats with 53 percent of the national vote in 1980; they won eight seats with less than 51 percent of the vote in 1981. In seats...
...movement, however, some old assumptions die hard. In Deborah Brecher's Women's Computer Literacy Handbook, a book-length version of the San Francisco course, computer programs are likened to cookbook recipes, data flows from a buffer like water from a bathtub, and bits and bytes are pictured as shoe boxes full of tiny babies who sit to represent the binary digit 0 and stand to represent the digit...
Operating on a shoe-string budget, and keeping one step ahead of firemen who would have closed the theater as a fire-trap, the Poet's Theater became the stopping point for numerous literary luminaries, Hunt told the overflowing crowd...