Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...produced a beer that it hoped would capitalize on the country's traditional preference for dry drinks in times of prosperity. Asahi's fermentation process used high-power yeast to reduce a beer's sugar content. The resulting brew, called Super Dry, is clean and crisp, with only a trace of sweetness and a short, slightly bitter aftertaste. It swept the Japanese market, in which dry beer now accounts for 35% of sales, and triggered a pack of imitators. Whether that story will repeat itself in the U.S. remains to be seen. The Asian imports have sold well at West...
Because it is the only meaningful talisman remaining to him after his father's death, every detail of its history becomes sacred. He constantly tries to recreate the letter's origins, to determine whether his mother knew about its existence before he found her with it, and to trace its journey from the safe where it was first kept to the desk drawer where it was after his father's death. He says, "I did not see my mother actually find the letter. Come across it; locate it. I'm building backwards again." Toward the end of the novel...
...contras have only to trace the wanderings of their civilian leaders to calculate the odds of the U.S. Congress's ever approving more military aid. Alfonso Robelo is tending business interests, including a small coffee finca, in Costa Rica. Pedro Joaquin Chamorro is working as a news commentator in Miami. There is talk that Adolfo Calero may establish a lobbying group in Washington...
Retailing experts trace the company's decline to the construction of the hulking tower. The building was designed to serve as headquarters for an expanding conglomerate of "everything stores." These were intended to offer everything from financial services to apparel (a strategy dubbed "socks 'n' stocks"). By the year 2000, the tower was to be occupied solely by Sears' own corporate branches, in contrast to about 60% of the building's 13,000-worker occupancy now. The view from the 110th floor may have been fine, but the vision was blurred. "The tower might have been one of Sears' greatest...
...exhibition space. Both display a Nam June Paik piece, clips from the compilation film Precious Images, and a model of a drive-in theater. Both have been ages in the planning, though MOMI's 1978 prospectus preceded AMMI's by three years, and a trace of bantering rancor shows through the Brits' geniality toward their upstart colonial rival. Perhaps because MOMI was spawned by the venerable British Film Institute, it seems a more comprehensive and congenial trip down the Yellow Brick Road of movie and TV history. It is certainly the more lavish in ambition and design: a superproduction...