Word: priming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immediate grievance was a statement by British Trade Minister Nicholas Ridley that the "uppity" Germans were plotting to take over Europe, and he would just as soon hand over the Continent to Hitler. What made the uproar worse was the widespread conviction that Ridley had only said what Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher thought. But Kohl wisely laughed off Ridley's remarks as "pretty silly," comparing them to his own gaffe about Gorbachev and Goebbels. Ridley was forced to resign...
...from Wonder of the Age to Blunder of the Century continued without letup last week. For one thing, the Associated Press reported that Perkin-Elmer Corp., which built the flawed mirror on the telescope, gave a subcontractor backward drawings for part of the telescope's guidance system -- forcing the prime contractor to pay the San Diego-based subcontractor, Composite Optics Inc., to rebuild it. Composite Optics reportedly made a tidy 63% profit...
REAL LIFE WITH JANE PAULEY (NBC, July 17 and 24, 10 p.m. EDT). Everybody's favorite ex-morning show host gets a prime-time showcase: the first two of five summer specials that will explore the "stresses and strains and silliness of the 1990s life-style...
...problem with such tactics is that unless wealthy nations begin to open their markets to food exports, markets for industrial and service exports could soon close down. That could break the world into rival trading blocs, each dominated by the strongest economic power in the region. As British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher observed, "There are three regional groups at this summit: one based on the dollar, one based on the yen, one on the deutsche mark...
...rafter, as he maneuvers through 5 ft.-tall, "haystack" waves on Idaho's roaring Salmon River. It may not be everyone's idea of a great vacation, but Kaminsky counts himself lucky to be out there risking his life. The U.S. Forest Service, which administers the Salmon and other prime Idaho rivers, grants just 1,100 permits to rafting parties annually. They are chosen by lottery from more than 11,000 applicants...