Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stalinization drive of the late 1950s, as well as the latest and perhaps most important manifestation of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's widely proclaimed program of reform and revitalization. Weighing the evidence, Sakharov, who was allowed to return to Moscow only two months ago, after spending seven years under virtual house arrest in the closed city of Gorky, concluded, "I don't know what Gorbachev wants personally, but there are a number of people at the top who understand that without democratization, all of his goals in the economic sphere ((and)) international sphere cannot succeed." In Washington, the Reagan Administration...
...companies, the cost cutting has produced stunning changes in the corporate culture. Eastman Kodak, which has always prided itself on being a home away from home for its workers, has closed its employee bowling alley and billiard rooms, and no longer provides dinners with dance bands. Reluctantly abandoning its virtual guarantee of job security, the company trimmed away nearly 13,000 of its 129,000 employees last year as part of a program to save $500 million annually. Says Kodak Chairman Colby Chandler: "The principal object is to make the company more agile, more competitive and more flexible...
Elliott, the virtual personification of rumpled Englishness, gives the same endearing performance he did as the dad in A Room with a view. Unfortunately, Elliott's character dies of a heart attack 45 minutes into the picture, leaving Byrne and a mediocre, no-name cast to carry the balance...
...million shares he acquired had a market value of $13.5 million on the day he paid the $100,000 for them, Dec. 31. Lubensky bought the stock for the lower price from a friend, Wheeling Chairman Allen Paulson, who resigned a week later. Paulson apparently intends to use the virtual giveaway as an income-tax write-off. SEC officials said the deal was legal, but an IRS spokesman said it would arouse scrutiny at the agency...
Remarkably few neighbors share the sheriff's straightforward sentiment. Dallas, say his cheerleaders, is not a ruthless killer; rather, he's the last American hero, a vestige of the Old West, a virtual Jeremiah Johnson. In a land of thundering silence and splendid isolation, where a trapper can hike for days without stumbling across another's tracks, this version of the story has grown into a powerful myth. Sure, his fans admit, Dallas killed two men on that terrible day in 1981, but they were just game wardens, the lowly emissaries of flower-fondling environmentalists. Today, in what remains...