Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to sell cars, not candidates. But he keeps in touch with Dukakis and the successful campaign operation he assembled...
WHILE this year's Take Back the Night rally attracted many enthusiastic participants, the march seemed to have lost touch with its original purpose. The event is designed to give women the opportunity to act together to reclaim areas where the threat of sexual violence prevents us from normally going. By marching and chanting confidently through these streets, we empower ourselves and defy this threat. As women acting in solidarity we can--for one night at least--take charge of the streets without protection or assistance...
...primary season that has lacked emotional issues, drugs is the one subject thus far that seems to touch the voters directly, viscerally. Unlike the national debt and the trade deficit, it is neither abstruse nor abstract. It is a backyard issue. It is also one with wide appeal: it allows a candidate to sound tough in both domestic and foreign affairs while arousing passions among all economic groups, from the mean streets of the South Bronx to the manicured lawns of Westchester County. A recent New York Times/CBS News poll showed that Americans believed, 3 to 1, that fighting...
Over the years, the basic instruction sets grew in length, as miniaturization allowed computer designers to etch more circuits into silicon chips. The most advanced microprocessors began to resemble state-of-the-art calculators that could compute everything from square roots to compound interest at the touch of a button. By the time Digital Equipment introduced its best-selling VAX 11/780 computer in 1977, the machine's instruction set had swelled to 304 commands...
...team- go executives, Eisner has re- animated the company' s fantasy factory with fresh ideas. From movies to theme parks to retail products, Disney is the hottest all- around merrymaker in America. The fare is no longer just for kids: under its Touchstone label, Disney makes movies with a touch of sex and mayhem. See ECONOMY & BUSINESS...