Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This policy has attracted such foreign-owned giants as Vöest, an Austrian combine that is expected to turn out $1.1 million worth of steel annually on Taiwan, and a slew of electronics firms: Sony, Hitachi, RCA, Motorola, Zenith, Admiral. Taiwan is now the chief supplier of black-and-white TV sets to the U.S. Ford Motor Co. has embarked on a $36.3 million venture with Lio Ho, a Taiwanese firm, to produce several small economy cars, selling at around $1,600, for the Asian market. The island also produces Sanyang motorcycles. Taiwan lately has switched to seeking capital...
...game survived it all. How? Is it because of the inexhaustible promotional gimmicks, the bat and ball and senior citizens days; the all-weather artificial turf; the dazzling uniforms? Is it the metaphysics and momentum that still continue from the zenith of the '30s and '40s? Or is it that this supposedly stolid, permanent game has imperceptibly accommodated change-that in each era it has accepted physical, textual and social alterations that a decade before had seemed impossibly revolutionary? Is it that, in the end, no other sport is so accurate a reflection of the supposedly stolid, permanent...
...ZENITH of the Field Service's effectiveness came in the 1968-69 academic year, under Chester W. Hartman '57, its first director. Hartman had become involved in the project when William A. Doebele, professor of Advanced Environmental Studies and associate dean for Development, approached him in late 1967 with the possibility of organizing a community-oriented planning group. Doebele had already secured a $25,000 grant from the Stern family and asked Hartman to formulate the service's objectives and establish a criteria for selecting students to participate in the program...
...industries in Citi-Bank's study, and the list of companies that have reported an after-tax earnings gain of 20% or more in the second quarter is impressive-General Motors, Ford, IBM, Sperry Rand, DuPont, Union Carbide, Caterpillar Tractor, International Paper, B F. Goodrich, Eastman Kodak and Zenith. Small firms in the same fields are often doing even better, according to Michael K. Evans, president of Philadelphia's Chase Econometrics, "'because they were hurt worse in the recession and so are starting from further back...
...weeks alone, the Bonnie und Clyde gang is believed to have been responsible for six major bombings, including two at U.S. Army installations that killed four U.S. servicemen and injured 41 persons. Modeling themselves on Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas, the gang, which numbered about 25 at its zenith, has engaged in a string of brazen bank robberies, car thefts and shoot-outs with police during the past two years. The motive is political. Through acts of violence, the gang seeks to overthrow West German society and drive the U.S. military presence from the country. Now only three important members...