Word: sprang
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...Saturn's progressive ideas sprang up in Tennessee. Many were borrowed from around the world by the Group of 99, a team of Saturn workers who traveled 2 million miles in 1984 and looked into some 160 pioneering enterprises, including Hewlett-Packard, McDonald's, Volvo, Kawasaki and Nissan. Their main conclusions: that most successful companies provide employees with a sense of ownership, have few and flexible guidelines and impose virtually no job-defining shop rules...
With Aoun out of the picture, most of Lebanon north of the Chouf Mountains is expected to enjoy relative peace. Several of the dozen or so militias that sprang up during the country's 15 years of civil war have promised to disband their forces and transform themselves into political parties. The pro-Iranian Hizballah, a Shi'ite extremist group that is thought to hold most of the Western hostages in Lebanon, feels threatened by the recent Syrian deployment in its stronghold, Beirut's southern suburbs. But given the importance Damascus attaches to its relations with Iran, especially...
...Philadelphia to study art. (Lynch has been married twice, each union producing a child, and had a four-year bicoastal relationship with actress Isabella Rossellini.) The neighborhood was hairy, hostile, especially for a lad trying to fit his bucolic vision into the urban nightmare around him. Lynch says Eraserhead sprang fully formed from nights in that "crime- ridden" city. "My original image was of a man's head bouncing on the ground, being picked up by a boy and taken to a pencil factory. I don't know where it came from." Some movie folk didn't know where Eraserhead...
...shops with Western products was brought off so smoothly and quietly that hardly anyone noticed. In the days before July 1, thousands of West German trucks rolled through the frontier posts, like so many military convoys, ferrying in goods most East Germans had only dreamed of. Used-car lots sprang up in small towns and along country roads hardly changed since the end of World War II -- time warp over and over again...
...spell in limbo. And the Phillips Collection is the right place for them. Its founder, Duncan Phillips, was the first American to buy De Stael in depth, and one has only to move to the other floors of this beloved institution to see the context from which De Stael sprang: the Matisses, the Bonnards, the late Braques, the august but now almost extinct line of arcadian modernism...