Word: precursor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...produced the first fashionable jumpsuits. A couple of years later, Kamali, owner of a sleeping bag, realized she would no longer have time to go camping, once her favorite pastime. So she cut up the bag, fashioned a fiber-filled coat and thus was born the precursor of the down clothing rage. Right now, she is working on a new inexpensive line for young children...
...University will test that new trust in coming years, Wyatt indicated, as Harvard begins to play an increasingly dominant role in the development and maintenance of property in the Square. "Hopefully, this is a precursor of things to come," Wyatt said of the designreview process used with University Place. "This device is an example of a greater involvement by Harvard in the Square. We have no specific plans, but this is a matter I have discussed with the President and members of the Corporation several times. We do realize that based on what's happening [in University neighborhoods] throughout...
...underlying rate of rise for consumer prices remains at about 10%, but the level of inflation for the first quarter dropped to an annual rate of 9.6% from 13.2% in the final quarter of 1980. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Producer Price Index for April, a precursor of consumer prices, rose at a 10% annual rate, down from the torrid 16.8% pace of the previous month...
Harvard still has an undefeated intercollegiate football team--that's rugby football, the precursor of American football...
...late Middle Ages and the Renaissance-had been gloriously gifted; it stood to reason that the musicians had been too. Yet there was scant record of what their work sounded like. The scores that survived were in archaic, sometimes cryptic notation. The original instruments-for instance, the sackbut, a precursor of the trombone, and the shawm, a sort of oboe with a cold-often were found only among museum relics or glimpsed in old paintings; even when they were reconstructed, few performers knew how to tune or play them. But in the past few decades there has been a revolution...