Word: wayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earned $45 million last year but lost $1.8 million during the first six months of 1989, largely because of slumping U.S. sales. Jaguar tried to fend off Ford's advances by offering General Motors a 30% stake in the British firm. But last week the British government opened the way for Ford by waiving London's legislative right to veto any takeover of Jaguar before 1991. Ford put its offer on the table the next morning. GM officials decided the price was too high and withdrew...
...then a top State Department official, denounced the West's refusal "to name any limit for Russian expansion and Russian responsibilities." But Charles Bohlen, assistant to the Secretary of State and one of the designers of the deal, called such criticism naive. Neither Britain nor the U.S. had any way to coerce Stalin, he argued, and "either our pals intend to limit themselves or they...
...researchers measured fitness in a straightforward way: they put people on a treadmill, set them walking, and periodically increased first the incline and then the speed of the treadmill until the walkers could no longer continue. The subjects were grouped into five different fitness levels based on their performance and followed for the next eight years...
...Press Institute. Their goal was to remind the world that their nation is, as El Tiempo said, "not a cave of thieves but the major victim of the international drug trade." Potent as their words were, more potent still was the harrowing image of Pulido cut down on his way home from an honest day's work in a land ravaged by dishonor...
...Ortega strode in," Bush related. "I was not sure whether it was a defensive stride or a take-command stride. He made his way around a table toward us. He is a bigger and broader man than the common perception. I noticed his uniform, the very bright khaki cloth and the bright red bandana. I don't say it to denigrate the Boy Scouts, but he looked like a senior Boy Scout leader...