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Word: soured (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proponents of the entrepreneurial boom, the complaints are sour grapes and nonsense. They point to the starring role that small firms have played in recent U.S. economic growth. Since 1980, as the biggest U.S. industrial corporations have restructured, cutting their payrolls by some 3.1 million workers, small companies have created more than 17 million new jobs. The Reagan Administration estimates that firms with fewer than 500 employees accounted for 63.5% of all new employment between 1980 and 1986. Small firms have also contributed to the resurgence of U.S. manufacturing exports. In a study of more than 400 small high-tech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Vs. Small | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

Kris Rondeau, HUCTW's director, called the University's claim of misconduct "sour grapes," and said she did not think it would file an official complaint...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: University May Charge Union With Misconduct | 5/20/1988 | See Source »

Sean Sebastian as Alceste has an edge to him that renders him sour...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: The Word is Absurd | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

Truesdell also announced that he had concocted a new drink called the "Marie"--"one ounce Tabasco, one ounce lemon juice, poured over crushed sour grapes...

Author: By Arnold M. Zipper, | Title: State Rep. Holds Fundraiser | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

...built glitzy prototypes that ran on exotic hardware. By the mid-1980s it became clear that both groups had missed the point: big companies did not want sexy technology for its own sake; they wanted solutions to business problems. Consequently, a number of once gung-ho companies began to sour on artificial-intelligence technology as expensive and impractical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Knowledge to Work | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

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