Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last Saturday, Vukonich tallied both on even-strength and the power play, and last night, he chipped in a pair of goals in the first period...
...when Wall Street plunged 508 points. Actually, the market was running quite high between the crash and the sale of Irises, but the painting was greeted as a talisman. Bond beefed up the security arrangements on the top floor of his headquarters in Perth to fortress strength and unveiled his acquisition -- the only Van Gogh in Australia -- to the press. "This isn't just a great painting!" he exulted to the cameras. "It's the greatest painting in the world...
...rivals are already sniping at each other. "We think our format takes better advantage of the strength of comedy than just a clip channel," says Tom Freston, head of MTV Networks. "Comedy has traditionally been character driven and story driven. It takes time to work." HBO executives snicker. "Why should their channel succeed in doing original long-form comedy?" says Fuchs. "The three networks spend hundreds of millions of dollars trying to do original comedy, and one show succeeds every two years...
...crowded U.S. market is increasingly unforgiving to any automaker, foreign or domestic, that loses its way. After a fast start, sales of the South Korean-made Hyundai Excel have plunged. While Nissan has performed well in 1989 on the strength of higher-priced models like the Maxima, it suffered from poor sales between 1985 and 1988 because of weak marketing and a stodgy product line. Says Laurel Cutler, Chrysler's vice president of consumer affairs: "There's no market for products that everybody likes just a little. Anything that's boring is vulnerable. I would say that the midsize market...
...saying that you expect Japan to take global leadership on the strength of its technology...