Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extremely contentious issue concerns Star Wars, the President's grandiose scheme for erecting a comprehensive defensive umbrella over the U.S. The twin dangers in the plan, as Mondale pointed out, are a) that it won't work and b) that it will provoke Soviet countermeasures, both in offensive and defensive weaponry, and thus a double helix in the arms race. On what could become the single most important and controversial national-security issue of the next year and even the next decade, Reagan provided, in one throwaway line Sunday night, a disturbing hint of his inclinations: he said...
...Rose's Roman Catholic Church dominates a Cleveland working-class neighborhood of shingled two-family homes. On the Sunday before the debate, a sermon resisted change through severe warnings against the twin evils of abortion and recreational sex. "Think about it when you go to vote," admonished the priest. Parishioner Judy Tren-kamp, a photocopier operator, lives with her son in a mock-Tudor house next to the railroad tracks. "Half of this parish is out of work," she shrugs. "I wanted Ferraro to trounce Bush...
...London, or on its country estate at Stratford-upon-Avon, the R.S.C. may perform as many as five plays a week. The company's tours of North America, though, have displayed only a fraction of its versatility: one play at a time. So the R.S.C.'s twin bill of Much Ado About Nothing and Cyrano de Bergerac, now on Broadway for a ten-week run, offers the American theatergoer a rare opportunity to see the world's top rep company in its element - an "at home" abroad...
Whether we, as individuals, have benefited from the actions of a President must always take back seat to some conception of the commonweal some higher sense of purpose for us a nation. Ronald Reagan has reversed this creed of government and placed the twin values of greed and self-interest as the centerpiece of his Administration, and he now bids the American voters to ratify this vision. That he is apparently successful is testimony only to the genial Californian's skillful use of television to sway Americans from their fundamental generosity of spirit. We profoundly reject Ronald Reagan's vision...
Micron Technology of Boise, Idaho, is another near instant success. Founded by Twin Brothers Ward and Joseph Parkinson, the company started in 1981 with a cash infusion from an investment group headed by J.R. Simplot, one of the nation's largest potato processors. The following January Micron began shipping a memory chip that was smaller and more efficient than those produced by other U.S. firms. Sales took off, and the company went public with its stock last summer. Initially offered for $14 each, Micron shares rose as high as $40½ and are now trading for about...