Word: swifts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stock on the N.Y.S.E. was Coleco Industries, the videogame manufacturer, even though it ended the year 28% below its 1982 high. Coleco, the creator of Donkey Kong, absorbed a swift kick in December after Warner Communications, owner of Atari, projected a fourth-quarter slump in earnings caused by disappointing videogame sales. Coleco suffered in the ensuing market selloff, but then it bounced back. Having started the year 6⅞, the Stock wound up at 36¾. By last Friday, it had risen another 5%, thanks to Coleco's announcement that 1982 earnings could be quintuple those...
...perplexed and frightened. Borderline hysteria can be mildly tiring. Hayes's Ted, with matinee-idol looks, seems to have a better grasp on his character's emotional range. But in a film like this, great acting is not of the essence. The cast provides sufficient body for the swift and silly script; they don't need to do much more. After all, Airplane II is not great deathless, sorry Mike and Al. But what a nice break from your thesis...
More ominous, new forms of automation Like computerized robots are eliminating blue-collar jobs at a swift pace. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that by the end of the decade, advances in microelectronic technology could cause 3 million jobs to disappear, a total that represents 15% of the manufacturing work force. At the same tune, of course, millions of new positions will be created for those who can work with the electronic gadgetry. The problem is that most assembly-line workers, particularly the older and less educated ones, will find it tough to learn sophisticated skills Like computer programming...
...unsuspected by his system-bound colleagues; of cancer; in Rome. Although he broke with the Communist Party in 1956, Petri filmed cerebral fables intertwining politics and psychosis (The Tenth Victim, Todo Modo) that he considered propaganda for the oppressed. He acknowledged, however, that he craftily "coated the pill" with swift plots, kinky surfaces and a fidgety mosaic style...
...REPUTATION for powerlessness--that is the greatest obstacle facing Harvard student government. The new Undergraduate Council will overcome the failure of previous assemblies only if it takes swift and visible action in areas of concern to students and administrators. The following are suggestions for such action, designed to galvanize support among undergraduates and inspire respect from University officials...