Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...draw emotionally closer in the audition, the dancers symbolically fall more and more in step. Their songs become joint expressions, not individual cries of emotion. We are watching the creation of a synchronized chorus, and by the final reprise of "One," the company taps and twirls as a single unit, their feet linked by invisible thread...
...argument has a nice "free market" ring to it, and, in view of the impressive conservation gains of the past decade, seems to have some merit. Efficiency of industrial energy use, measured by real Gross National Product produced per unit of energy consumed, has jumped nearly 40 percent since 1974. Home insulation, smaller cars, and other conservation measures have cut consumer energy use dramatically; overall, America's energy consumption has declined by 0.5 percent per year since...
Commented Spencer Brog, now three years on the squad. "The deference this year is that we really were a team. In an individual event like squash, that's rarely achieved. That was mostly due to our captains. They really made us a close knit unit...
Dinneen added that Desaulniers "took a year off and came back to a much more structured team than past years, and he had a lot of trouble fitting in. He's been on his own, and it wasn't easy for him to fit on the team unit Maybe he wanted to stay...
...Thursday, Sept. 17, the report continued, final arrangements were made for a Phalangist intelligence unit, headed by Elias Hobeika, intelligence chief of the Phalangist forces, to enter the camps, and at about 6 p.m. the entry occurred. That night and throughout the following day, reports reached a number of Israeli officers and enlisted men of trouble within the camps, but top Israeli military men ignored or underplayed these warnings. The report concluded that as late as 4 p.m. Friday, when he met with Phalangist commanders, Chief of Staff Eitan told them they should "continue the action, mopping up the empty...