Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overall attitude in the room is just really positive, "Co-Captain Tim Kierstead said. "We were in better shape than anyone else there. Even when the second-stringers had to come in, they were ready to jump...
...benevolent decimation of the Soviet armed forces, an effective 10% drawdown in manpower and hardware. He earned loud cheers and enthusiastic praise around the world, but not from the newly elected leader in Washington. George Bush was into his prudence thing, not his vision thing. As the Administration took shape, it radiated not just caution but skepticism, with lots of grumbling about Gorbasms and Gorbomania...
...Roaring Eighties reach an end, the verdict on raiding is becoming clear. Defenders of the practice insist that raiders have made U.S. industry more competitive by forcing bloated companies to slim down and shape up. Yet the towering debt loads piled up during the raider era -- by both the attackers and the managers seeking to repel them -- have made many companies less flexible and far more vulnerable to an economic slump. While the merger- / and-acquisition game will no doubt carry on in the 1990s, such deals are apt to be less grandiose and more carefully wrought than the quick...
...said the mentality of Hitler's Germany nolonger exists, adding that the World War Il erashould not shape views on reunification today...
...student said his attackers appeared to be intent on assaulting him regardless of his ability to fight back. "I'm a six-foot tall male in fairly good shape. They were looking for the next person who was coming down there, period," he said...