Word: straussed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Post-election analysis has revealed some interesting insights into the dynamics of this election. Clearly, the Christian Democrats took votes almost everywhere from the Social Democrats. Even in industrial areas like North-Rhine-Westphalia, the conservative emerged as victors, scoring heavily with women and skilled workers. Although Franz Josef Strauss's Christian Social Union---the Bavarian sister party of the Christian Democrats--polled 10.6 percent of the vote, there is evidence his party registered less than one percent gain over the last national election results. In fact, many sophisticated voters did split their two votes between the Christian Democrats...
Blue-Jeans Giant Levi Strauss & Co. hoped to cap a decade of surging profits in 1980 by clothing the U.S. Olympic team for the Moscow Games. Not only did the American team pull out of the competition but the denim fad deflated at about the same time. The company's profits fell 43% in two years, to $126.6 million in 1982. Undeterred, Levi Strauss has won the job again and will be outfitting U.S. participants for their ceremonial appearances at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. The company will also provide uniforms for the staff and employees. All told, Levi...
...this sounds Like a lot of money, F. Don Miller, executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee, points out that corporate Olympic contributions are "a great American tradition." Levi Strauss hopes to rekindle an old tradition of its own: growth. With a boost from pre-Olympics publicity, it is expected to show a hefty gain in profits this year...
...organize time and myth with music; we mark our lives by it. The death by assassination of John Lennon was an event that mingled music and myth and completed the relationship between the two. Music, as the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss once said, "unites the contrary attributes of being both intelligible and untranslatable...
...hold their caucuses or primaries. All told, upwards of 30% of the Democratic Convention's delegates will be selected in the first three weeks of the process. "The third week of the primaries could be the bottom of the ninth inning," says the Democrats' past chairman Robert Strauss...