Word: swatch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world break-dance championship sponsored by Swatch, the Swiss watch brand, took place last week in Manhattan. The purse totaled $25,000, including $3,500 prizes for the top soloists. Best foreign team was the West Germans, who outspun the British and French crews...
...first glance the arc looked ordinary, like colliding clouds of galactic dust or a swatch of newborn, fuzzy stars. Calculations soon ruled out both possibilities. The astronomers then wondered if the threadlike arc might be the tattered remnant of interstellar material that had been sucked into a black hole at the galaxy's center; that notion too was discarded. Explains Frank Kerr, provost of the sciences at the University of Maryland, who has studied the structure of the Milky Way since 1951: "You'd expect a black hole to be pulling in all directions, not in an isolated...
...obvious from the moment she bounded onto the tarmac at a Buenos Aires airport that the years have taken none of the sass out of the indefatigable Isabel, who once earned a living as a cabaret dancer. Sporting a shiny brown leather coat, with a swatch of honey-blond hair falling over her right eye, she strode up to a group of Perónist party leaders, wagged an admonishing finger at them and declared, "Whoever misbehaves will get a spanking." Later, she continued jousting coquettishly with members of the Perónist National Council who had gathered...
...eight stylishly dressed jurists huddled around a stark, white, rectangular table were sifting through endless snippets of yarn and swatch upon swatch of silk, rayon and linen. "We need to soften the yellow to almost a blond yellow," one mulled aloud, squinting at several fabric squares. A green swatch was rejected by one woman with a disapproving, "That's too much of a bathroom tile shade." Another tan square drew the comment, "Good. It doesn't have any shine, like a brown paper bag." It seemed for a time that no decisions would be reached, but after...
...REPORTS of Israel's painful withdrawal from the last swatch of Sinai desert have obscured the magnitude of a sacrifice designed to bring stability to all of the Middle East. More important than the images of desperate settlers hurling burning tires at Israeli troops is the dream of Camp David--that cooperation between Jerusalem and Cairo would call into question the pervasive animosity between Arabs and Jews and perhaps spark new peace initiatives throughout the region...