Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...timely move is being led by Societe Suisse de Microelectronique et d'Horlogerie, originator of the popular quartz Swatch Watch. The company has - produced six prototypes of a mechanical, self-winding version of the Swatch, which will probably go on sale next year for about $40. Though quartz models constituted 90% of Swiss-made watches last year, the mechanical versions could account for half of all sales...
This year's team is a new and improved version of last year's crew. But even the shiniest products collect dust. Will inactivity mean another semifinal defeat...
...Beijing already is in disorder and it isspreading to the whole country," Li said, in anedited version of the meeting broadcast ontelevision...
Since then, the Lawrence legend has thrived through a steady stream of biographies and memoirs. His life sparked one of the greatest epic films ever made: David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962), recently rereleased in the original, uncut version its director intended. Moviegoers can once again admire Peter O'Toole in the title role and assume that they have seen Lawrence whole. They have not, through no fault of the actor or anyone else involved in that exemplary movie. On the evidence of The Selected Letters, which includes 470 examples, roughly two-thirds published for the first time, Lawrence...
Just so. In a single letter, Lawrence could ring all the changes between boasting and self-abnegation. To a confidante who had read an early version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence noted, "The story I have to tell is one of the most splendid ever given a man for writing." He also downplayed his own participation in that story, adding, "I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself...