Word: stride
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Goizueta took his first big stride away from soft drinks in 1982 with the $700 million purchase of Columbia Pictures. At a stroke, that gave Coca-Cola control over the last major independent film producer in Hollywood, a substantial movie inventory and a television division that produces such popular shows as T.J. Hooker and Days of Our Lives. At first Columbia churned out movie after movie, as if trying to muscle its way to a bigger market share. That approach led to one smash hit, Ghostbusters, and a string of expensive clinkers, including The Slugger's Wife, Perfect and Crossroads...
...1970s he founded and led the Peoples Bicentennial Commission in efforts to finance "revolutionary alternatives" to the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, which he considered to be too commercialized. By 1977 Rifkin had become embroiled in the growing controversy over the new recombinant-DNA technology and was ready to hit full stride. In his book Who Should Play God, published that year, he naively expressed concern that in a "handful of years" scientists would be able to create "new plants, new animals, and new forms of human and post- human beings." The same year, he led a group of protesters who disrupted...
...other hand, hit its stride quickly. In the bottom of the first, the Engineers mounted a basesloaded threat and sent catcher Julie Brown to the plate with two outs...
Rubin--who won 11 games last year--hit her stride in the fourth inning, and faced just 10 batters over the final four frames. In fact, the senior co-captain--who did not yield a single walk--threw a mere 64 pitches on the afternoon...
...workshop ended with a fizzle, however, as the videotape when finally replayed, came up only static. McGillis took this in stride, asking facetiously whether the participants would like to sing songs...