Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...union was something of a marriage of convenience between two shrunken giants. Rolls-Royce, whose models range from the $85,300 Silver Shadow to the $155,800 Corniche convertible, has found that inflation and recession are slowing down even the superrich. The three-year waiting list for its cars in Britain has evaporated, and a buyer with the money can now walk in and get one right off the showroom floor. U.S. sales in 1979 fell off 10%, to 1,002. Moreover, Rolls' diesel-engine division is in trouble, mainly because a $150 million contract to make Iranian tank...
...billing in the new corporate name, Rolls-Royce Vickers. Euphony aside, the name is expected to add an element of prestige to the combine. First order of business for the new company: the fall roll-out of a successor to the 15-year-old Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. The new car's prototype has been code-named the Rolls-009 and will, as the bottom-of-the-line model, sell for more than...
...meeting of provincial officials: "I will never surrender Egypt's will to make her own decisions to the lunatic Gaddafi, the bloodthirsty Hussein, the traitor Assad or to the Saudis, who are at once afraid of the Palestinians, the Syrians, the Iraqis and even their own shadow!" Having thus dispensed with Arab adversaries, Sadat made plans to retreat to his Ma'mura resthouse near Alexandria for the duration of the summer...
...Western mold, a believer in pluralist democracy. But neither alternative seems to reflect the aspirations of the Soviet masses. For all their admirable courage, the few thousand Soviet dissidents still at large have their principal following in the West. They sometimes behave like high officials of a shadow government, hoping to get their manifestoes played back into the Soviet Union by Western radio, but the resonance of those messages among their countrymen seems to be very faint. To the extent that they have an impact, the dissidents are often dismissed by the general public as reckless dreamers or denounced...
Much of Aksyonov's fiction has a dark and enigmatic cast that is the shadow of the Gulag. Like many other contemporary Soviet writers, he is the child of Stalin's victims: Aksyonov was brought up in one of the infamous orphanages called Homes for the Children of Enemies of the People. Few writers can reproduce the lingering stench of brutality and fear better than he. In his story Victory, a gem of Russian short fiction, a chance game of chess on a train between a brutish but canny player and an intellectual becomes a moral life...