Word: tunings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dartmouth proved to be a good tune-up match for the Elis. The Big Green kept intact its perfect record against the Crimson--a perfect...
...made imports more expensive. But foreign competitors have trimmed costs and boosted efficiency with almost the same zeal as the U.S. mills. The resurgent Japanese steel industry has cut its work force 18% in the past three years, to 228,000. Europe's steel industry, subsidized to the tune of $57 billion since 1975, is now largely self-sufficient owing to higher productivity. Because of such moves, says Walter Williams, chairman of Bethlehem Steel, "we'll never be able to go back to the good old days." Big Steel has finally realized that the less comfortable it is, the brighter...
...evolution of the Sino-Soviet relationship has followed a tortuous course. A decade of comradeship shattered in 1960 over China's resentment at forever being expected to let Moscow call the tune, and over Mao's charge that Nikita Khrushchev was diluting Marxist-Leninist dogma. Border talks in 1978 began to melt the two-decade freeze. But before normalcy could be achieved, two outbreaks of hostilities in Asia seriously disturbed China. One was the invasion of Kampuchea by Viet Nam, a Soviet ally, which eventually provoked a "punitive attack" by Chinese troops on Hanoi's territory. The second...
...Black" has also developed negative connotations, but there is no real reason to use the term "African-American" other than to provide a motivational tune-up. Chances are that a decade from now "African-American" will develop its own negative imagery and will have to be cast on the heap of bad identifiers...
...developer called the tune, and the council danced as fast as it knew how. The council, in a moment of befuddlement, adopted some easement deal amendments which it thought were harmless. But when the developer protested, the council entered into a complex rigamarole to excise those amendments...