Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swept out the old management, lacocca also axed some bad business practices. The most insidious was a device known as the sales bank. Unlike other automakers, which build few cars except those ordered by dealers either for customers or showroom stock, Chrysler turned out a lot of cars that simply sat in inventory. Although theoretically this meant that production lines could be kept running efficiently, the sales bank became a tool to hide mistakes. Managers ordered tens of thousands of cars built so that they could boost production figures, as well as their bonuses. Most of the vehicles were eventually...
...points at all. In the two-game ECAC quarterfinal series against RPI at Bright, Britz was assigned to cover the highest regular-season scorer in the East, George Servinis. The ECAC Rookie of the Year managed only a point in each game, well below his usual pace, as Harvard swept the pair...
...however, Fraser was largely defeated by Australia's economic woes. Unemployment is at 10.1%, the highest since the early 1930s. Inflation is 11.2% annually, and economic growth is only 1%. The recession has been exacerbated by the worst drought in 40 years and by bush fires that swept through southeastern Australia three weeks ago, claiming 72 lives and destroying 2,500 homes. Further reports of sharply declining productivity in a wide variety of consumer goods reached the candidates as they campaigned. But where Fraser advocated prudent economic conservatism, Hawke called for an ambitious $2.65 billion public works program designed...
...bait in Kurtz's plan is Charmian (called Charlie), an English actress whose haphazardly radical political involvements qualify her (á la Vanessa Redgrave) for the role Kurtz wants her to play. She is the rebellious middle-class type who could very well be swept away by a sensual young Palestinian and his burning desire to regain his homeland. Kurtz assigns Becker, an aging but still handsome Israeli war hero, to recruit Charlie and then teach her how to act in "the theater of deeds." A fictitious love affair must be fabricated between Charlie and the younger brother, whom...
None of this slowed Koestler's production. He had been right so many times before; he had been attacked by so many who were now swept into the dustbin of history. Why should he care about the doubters? Indeed, as Koestler grew older, there was a marked change in the man. The fury and belligerence seemed to be ebbing. The bantam figure, who once seemed to be a walking history of modern European politics, appeared to be negotiating some new contract with the world...