Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presumptive political broker. For Mondale, coming to terms with Jackson and other black leaders was a difficult but crucial preliminary to kicking off his formal campaign. The nominee did so after 50 black leaders spent almost eight hours last week debating the issue in a ballroom of the Twin Cities' St. Paul Hotel. Said Jackson when it was over: "We must leave this place and mobilize the people of our nation." Added a jubilant Mondale: "Thus endeth the reading of the Word...
...tumbleweeds, a few head of cattle and a little cotton. But in 1965 the Mexican government decided to stimulate jobs in the northern region by relaxing its laws against foreign ownership of factories and reducing import taxes on raw materials. This has enabled U.S. companies to build so-called twin plants, one north of the border and the other south. A typical company manufactures its materials in the U.S. plant, sends them to the Mexican factory for assembly and then returns them to the U.S. for packaging. The Mexicans have given the plants the name maquiladoras, meaning golden mills, because...
...lost the audience momentarily. Since the 1980 boycott, athletes have become sensitive on one subject. "I just don't like the Olympics to be a ploy for political things of any kind," said Pam McGee of the gold-medal women's basketball team, who brought along her twin sister Paula...
...player who showed the surest instinct for spontaneous drama was Pam McGee, who hurtled into the stands moments after the medal ceremony to give her gold to her twin sister and U.S.C. teammate Paula, who was among the last candidates cut from the team. Like several of the 1980 holdovers, the McGees are exploring opportunities to play for pay in Europe-but only if chosen together...
...according to Navy Secretary John Lehman, "the most capable air-to-air maneuvering aircraft in the world." But last week the Navy announced that its new F/A-18 Hornet fighter-bombers had a design flaw that produces cracks in the twin tail assembly. The planes will be grounded for three or four days while the tail assembly is modified. At least ten Hornets have developed the cracks and will be out of service for a longer period...