Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision to turn down the NHL in favor of Europe didn't surprise many of MacDonald's teammates or coaches, who expected him to opt for the fast-skating style of international hockey rather than the more physical NHL. MacDonald traveled to both Sweden and Switzerland in the past month to check out different international programs...
Should the U.S. turn its back on the martyred students who rallied around a sculpture resembling the Statue of Liberty? Or break its ties with the Chinese government and risk a devastating setback to both strategic and commercial interests? Neither, said the President, who is something of an old China hand, having headed the U.S. mission to Beijing in 1974-75. Bush tried, as he put it, "to find a proper, prudent balance" -- to toe-dance between the horns of the dilemma...
...more new customers is too alluring to surrender easily. "You can't afford to just opt out of any world market, particularly one the size and potential of China," says Roger Sullivan, president of the U.S.-China Business Council. "For us to do that would be to just turn it over to the Japanese...
...long one, and even when it ends, Western involvement will depend on whether the eventual winners are receptive to foreign influence or are isolationist hard-liners. Thermo Electron, a Waltham, Mass., company, is negotiating to build in China a $110 million co-generation plant that would turn out electric power and ferrosilicon metal by reusing the same fuel (coal). But, says chief executive George Hatsopoulos, "if the situation reverted to anything like the ((1960s)) Cultural Revolution, we wouldn't want to have anything to do with China...
Come summertime, there are two kinds of water people. There are the swimmers, surfers, scullers and sailors, who take to the sea under their own power or at the wind's mercy. And then there are those who harness horsepower, turn a key and roar across the waves. The naval battles between the two types have gone on for years, as sailboats topple in the wakes of motorboats. But this year the most visible -- and audible -- combatant promises to be one of the smallest and peskiest of them all: the "personal watercraft," better known by Kawasaki's trademark Jet Skis...