Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...currency that can buy things. They will not start a theoretical or philosophical discussion. Rather, a husband will say to his wife, "Let's go to Paris." And they will walk along the Champs Elysees and feel they are in the center of the world. These people will set the date of the election. I don't know the date, but I would say it will be soon...
...more than two decades. But the machines represented different generations and were not always able, as computer lingo puts it, to talk to one another. In 1987 editorial operations director Gerard C. Lelievre decided that it was time for all our machines to speak the same language. He set out to combine all stages of creating an issue of TIME -- from words, design and pictures to print -- into a seamless electronic process. Lelievre was interested in more than scoring a technological breakthrough. "Computers give editors more flexibility and more control," he says. "This edge provides the reader with a better...
Greensboro (pop. 195,495), a prosperous town set on North Carolina's lush Piedmont Plateau, has been a national bellwether of race relations. It was not only the birthplace of the sit-in movement but also the site of one of the most horrifying episodes of racial violence since the 1960s. In 1979 five Communist Workers Party members taking part in a "Death to the Klan" rally were gunned down in the street by American Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan...
...cope with demand. It is as bad, if not worse, in Budapest. "We just can't keep up with the boom," says Gyorgy Szekely, vice president of Ibusz, the state-run travel company. "We need more of everything." Given the accommodations shortage, the best advice for tourists is to set out with confirmed reservations...
...weekly to be produced by the company since the notorious failure of Time Inc.'s TV-CABLE WEEK in 1983 and the shutdown of PICTURE WEEK in 1986 after nine months of test marketing. To promote a creative, entrepreneurial atmosphere and contain costs, Jarvis and publisher Michael Klingensmith set up offices outside the Time & Life Building. Editor- in-chief McManus and his principal deputies -- editorial director Richard Stolley and corporate editor Gilbert Rogin -- paid close attention to the start-up but did not turn to hands-on editing of the magazine until a month...