Word: vein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same vein, Sachs believes that the Latin debt crisis will eventually ease. He considers a plan that Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady unveiled last spring, which calls for limited debt reduction, a modest but encouraging step. "There has been a lot of progress," Sachs says. "The thinking is much more realistic...
...same vein, many computer customers believe the industry's innovative efforts at the moment are failing to fill users' needs. They believe the expansion during the early and mid-1980s was based largely on the proliferation of such breakthrough products as the Apple II personal computer (1977); WordStar, the wordprocessing program (1979); VisiCalc, an electronic accounting ledger or spreadsheet (1979); the IBM PC (1981); Apple's Macintosh, with its advanced graphics capability (1984); and desktop- publishing gear like Aldus PageMaker...
...short time, Berlin felt himself mined out. But an invitation from Moss Hart to collaborate on Face the Music in 1932 opened a rich new vein of melody. Depression America fought off the gathering gloom with the cheery bounce of Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee. For the first-act finale of As Thousands Cheer (1933), he dusted off an old clinker called Smile and Show Your Dimple, put a new bonnet on it and called it Easter Parade. Two years later, it was on to Hollywood, where Berlin wrote many of the tunes that sent % Fred Astaire...
...retired two years ago as Herman Miller's chief executive officer, is hardly a soft touch. At performance reviews, he regularly grilled top managers on such soul-searing topics as "Who are you?," "What have you abandoned?" and "What should grace enable us to be?" In a similar vein, De Pree provides a list of telltale signs that a company is in trouble. Among them: a proliferation of manuals, the disappearance of "tribal stories" that preserve a firm's traditions, and a "dark tension among key people...
...much remembering. In Funes, the Memorious, Jorge Luis Borges tells the story of a man who suddenly gains the ability to remember every iota of information he has ever apprehended. Every vein of every leaf of every tree, every formation of every cloud in every sky at every instant of his life he sees. An avalanche of knowing renders him inaccessible, mystical and finally defeated. Funes dies young. No mind can apprehend God's work, or man's, in all its detail and survive. Forgetting, for men as for nations, is a biological necessity, like sleep, a respite from consciousness...