Word: threads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shared a common belief that the issue of resource allocation could be a unifying thread between nations," said Hiatt, who completed final arrangements for the program during a trip to Japan earlier this month...
...joined the national board of SAEP just after its inception in 1980, and members credit him with raising corporate funds that are traditionally difficult to obtain and securing a $2.7 million annual grant from AID. "Federal funds hang by a thread and corporate sponsors are not easy to find," says Donald Stewart, president of predominantly Black Spelman College and a member of the SAEP board. "Bok has been very helpful in getting that kind of support...
Many scientists believe there is a common thread in this crazy-quilt weather, some fair, some foul, some just puzzling. It is a phenomenon known in Spanish as El Niño, a reference to the Christ child. Named by the fishermen of Peru and Ecuador, El Niño is a warm current of equatorial water that usually appears around Christmas off western South America. The peculiar ocean movement sharply reduces the fish catch, especially anchovies, which are ground up and sold as meal for livestock and poultry. The present El Niño, which first appeared last June...
...traditional West German values: hard work, austerity and loyalty to the "fatherland." His job now will be to translate those verities into a painful economic program that Kohl insists will lift the country out of its worst slump since World War II. At the same time, he must thread his way through a political minefield in supporting NATO's 1979 decision to install 572 U.S. cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe. Unless there is a breakthrough in U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations in Geneva, the installation is to start at the end of this year...
...dancers symbolically fall more and more in step. Their songs become joint expressions, not individual cries of emotion. We are watching the creation of a synchronized chorus, and by the final reprise of "One," the company taps and twirls as a single unit, their feet linked by invisible thread...