Word: switch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Governor isn't often present for the throwing of the switch, but this was an unusual sunset. Even the buildings across the street wore bunting. A World Series supply of chroniclers from the American as well as the National League showed up to see the last-place Phillies oppose the fourth-place Cubs, whose proprietors said they had to give in to television and go incandescent or risk having to host every one of their postseason games in St. Louis. If any. The Cubs are 80 years between World Championships and pennantless since World...
True to the genre, Romero runs clever twists on mandatory horror-movie citations like the Psycho shower sequence (Mrs. Bates is a monkey) and The Old Dark House climax (Ella pulls the power switch). And at the end, Monkey Shines soars into that rarefied sci-fi air where melodrama meets metaphor. Romero, best known for Night of the Living Dead 20 years ago, has grown up here, grown past Hitchcock homages to fix on the war of mind and body that everyone ceaselessly wages. While he's at it, he has made the smartest dark fantasy since David Cronenberg...
...suicide was simply the act of a deeply despondent individual no longer able to cope. But his death can also be seen as a painful parable about how seriously many Japanese managers view responsibility and how they deal with failure. While many Americans feel little company loyalty and switch fairly easily to another firm when confronted with a setback, the Japanese tend to regard a job as a lifelong proposition and judge themselves entirely in the light of how well they do it. For some Japanese, especially those in their late 40s or older, failure to perform is equivalent...
...switch to high-tech weapons will send Soviet military costs soaring. The T-80 tank costs nine times as much to produce as the older T-64 and is more expensive to maintain. Qualified personnel will be needed to operate the new equipment -- at higher training costs. Soviet procurement practices, moreover, are skewed toward the purchase of proven products rather than sophisticated new equipment. "They have no problem churning out tanks," says Jonathan Eyal, a research fellow at Britain's Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies. "But they do have a problem keeping pace with technological advancement...
...accidental U.S. downing of an Iranian Airbus on July 3, with the loss of 290 lives, may have figured indirectly in Iran's policy switch. For one thing, Tehran chose to protest the incident by sending its Foreign Minister before the U.N. Security Council, a forum that it had assiduously avoided since Resolution 598 was passed over its objections last July. For another, the shootdown gave relatively moderate political figures a chance to argue the futility of continuing a war that, they insisted, the U.S. would never permit Iraq to lose. That line of reasoning had emerged on previous occasions...