Word: impression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Eisner at the helm, Disney has not lost its obsessive attention to detail. Eisner aims to impress Parisians with a fluent opening-day speech at Euro Disneyland four years from now, so he has dusted off a college French textbook and hired a French-speaking limousine driver through a want ad. Walking through Disneyland one Sunday afternoon, he peered at the plastic | leaves on the Swiss Family Robinson tree house, noting that they periodically wear out and need to be replaced leaf by leaf at a cost of $500,000. As his family strolled the park...
...will name its "top guns" -- an individual pilot and a high-scoring team from a field of 90 active-duty, reservist and Air National Guard pilots flying in from bases as close as Colorado and as distant as Korea. Much of the costly $1.2 million exercise is calculated to impress Congress. It provides comparative statistics measuring the high-tech F-16 against older planes such as the F-4s, A-10s and A-7s flown by Guardsmen and some reservists. Computerized bombing, applied by man, usually triumphs, and the Air Force needs the results to justify an increasingly high-tech...
Harvard freshman Stephanie Clark continued to impress everyone, capturing a 3-1 victory against Jo Ann Heptabauer before dropping a tough five-game decision to Shema Matin...
...favorite convicts in order to gauge their opinions on baseball's severe punishment of Hernandez and Parker. Fourteen of the felons are being jailed for various drug related crimes, five for armed robbery, and one for selling insider-trading stock tips (although he wished to impress upon me the fact that he was truly penitent). Nineteen of society's condemned eagerly offered to exchange positions with Hernandez and Parker. The lone dissenter, a short and lithe drug pusher from Minneapolis who is also a swell switch-hitting shortstop, declined to change places because neither the Mets...
...video game is Punchball, a device resembling a prizefighter's speed bag. For a quarter you can haul off and smash the bag while a meter registers the force of the blow. Splotches of dried blood on the leather indicate that some cowpokes have broken their hands trying to impress that cute little filly from down the road in Medicine Hat. Lance Atwood, 33, one of the real cowboys who calls Ranchman's home, can readily separate a fellow cowboy out of the herd of lawyers, accountants and truck drivers. "You come in here on Saturday at midnight," he says...