Word: traced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Troubles have piled up in Toyland partly because the economy has been sluggish. A toy is an easy purchase to put off. But some of the difficulties trace back to last year's Christmas season. In anticipation of high sales that did not develop, retailers stocked too many toys, especially Mattel's Hot Wheels, a combination of plastic tracks and miniature metal cars. Loads of Hot Wheels are now cooling off in warehouses or often being sold for six for $1, whereas one alone used to cost that much. Wary of being burned again, merchants have reduced their...
...Stalinist days, Medvedev would have probably disappeared without a trace behind the walls of Lubianka prison. It is a measure of progress that Medvedev had only to endure obscene absurdities. Committees of psychiatrists tried to discredit his mind with such limp diagnoses as "poor adaptation to the social environment," and "obsessive reformist delusions." Such labels, as the Medvedevs note, could have also been pasted on Marx and Lenin...
...Roof now joins the company of Star!, Hello, Dolly!, Paint Your Wagon and Dr. Dolittle-the last, lumbering dinosaurs from the era of big-budget musicals. The qualities that have kept the Broadway Fiddler running these seven years are in scant supply onscreen. Gone with barely a trace are warmth, joy, insight and even the most elementary kind of entertainment. The story of Tevye, the milkman of a small village in czarist Russia around the time of the pogroms, his nagging wife and his nubile daughters, is a modest affair requiring intimate treatment. Instead, it gets a full-scale Hollywood...
...growth of the Bureau's image is a classic example. Hoover did not win the nation's heart by his silent devotion to duty; rather, he consciously carved out his niche by means of a concentrated campaign of public relations. Most observers of the FBI trace the beginning of the campaign to the Kansas City Massacre of 1933--a cold blooded-shoot-out in which Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd and a group of hoolums attempted to free one of their cohorts who was being taken to prison. Although the plan failed. FBI Special Agents and a local police chief died...
...activities. Hence, the surging Japanese economy will likely continue its pace. But thoughtful Japanese are already wary of their impending prosperity. A Tokyo professor confides he has decided to give up his job in order to move his family out of Japan's industrial belt. He observes, without a trace of a smile, that "GNP translated into Japanese means Gross National Pollution...