Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British empire, on which the sun never set, that originally spread English around the world, along with tea breaks, cuffed trousers and the stiff upper lip. But when the imperial sun finally did set after World War II, the American language followed American power into the vacuum. Key reason: the language has a rare forcefulness and flexibility. Even the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary last month incorporated such Americanisms as yuppie and zilch. Explained Editor Robert Burchfield: "Our language is changing slowly, and America is leading the way now, not Britain...
...little in common with middle and upper class suburbanites who made up the bulk of his Harvard classmates...
...page upper limit was imposed, in theGovernment Department, at least, after anambitious senior named Henry Kissinger '50 woreout the spectacles of his readers by handing in a350-page magnum opus...
France's grandes ecoles, the elite graduate schools in which its political, business and professional leaders are trained, not only provide a ticket to the upper reaches of French life but also serve as a repository of the nation's highest culture and learning. Imagine the shock, then, when France's top business school, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, decided to offer a management program next fall that will be taught in English. Reason: English has become the language of international business...
...have been building new tank and artillery emplacements in southern Lebanon. As Peres put it, Syrian forces have been steadily "creeping" toward Israel's northern border. Only last week Syrian- backed Lebanese guerrillas fired two Katyusha rockets across the border, wounding an Israeli and two of his children in Upper Galilee. Israel's costly 1982 war in Lebanon was supposed to have stopped such attacks...