Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, the boom years of the 1980s--when music lovers were replacing their LPs with CDs--are over. Classical sales have declined from 10% of the record market to about 5% now. To turn a penny, most record companies have halved their output of new classical recordings; instead, the buzz word in the business these days is compilations...
...Gallagher 2 turn out to be a really nice guy so you couldn't deck...
Until Mubarak went to defuse the crisis, around the time the pigeons disappeared, I hadn't realized that the Turks and the Syrians weren't getting along; that was part of what made the story so disturbing. The Turks used to be pretty good about waiting their turn to become involved in an international crisis: every five or six years they'd have a flare-up with the Greeks over Cyprus, and in between they'd manage to content themselves with some routine Kurd oppression...
...Sawyer turned up little actual news beyond Starr's admission that his office should have kept Linda Tripp on a tighter leash. The real revelations were in Starr's sense of self. Having previously compared himself to Joe Friday, Atticus Finch, George Washington and the Lone Ranger, Starr upped the ante on 20/20, when he tacitly likened himself to Sir Thomas More ("He took the law very seriously") and, half-jokingly, to Jesus Christ (Starr said his reaction on first hearing of Lewinsky was "a little bit of 'Let this cup pass from me'"). The More reference was actually kind...
...wars and rebuild continents. Other countries may have had the capital, the natural resources or the skilled workers needed to industrialize, but their economic and political systems usually favored consensus management and faceless bureaucrats while denigrating the kind of individual initiative required to take an idea and turn it into an industry. The 21st century will no doubt include a larger number of great business leaders from outside the U.S. as more nations embrace capitalism and come to understand the importance of rewarding individual initiative...