Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Columbia has talent, but is a little farther behind schedule than the rest of the league," he said. "We were able to be more patient on offense because of Columbia's size, but we're going to have to be more efficient against the better teams in the league if we want to accomplish our goals...
...Germany, the Soviet Union -- might not have found the stakes so high or the crisis quite so threatening. It has not penetrated our imagination that in a world where the powerful, industrialized nation-states are at last at peace, there might be other ways to face down a pint-size Third World warrior state than with massive force of arms. Nor have we begun to see what an anachronism we are in danger of becoming: a warrior nation in a world that pines for peace, a high- tech state with the values of a warrior band...
Matsushita (1989 revenues: $44 billion) commands an array of brands, like Panasonic, Pioneer, Technics, Quasar and JVC. The company makes products ranging from stereos to refrigerators to bicycles to semiconductors. It is twice Sony's size, and developed the VHS videocassette format, which prevailed over Sony's Beta in a bloody competitive battle...
...only half- finished, soccer stadiums and no foreign teams to play in them, empty hotels with antiaircraft batteries on their roofs. The city is at once sinuous and Stalinesque: palm trees and concrete mausoleums with a martial theme. And everywhere the gaze of the maximum leader. Hundreds of billboard-size portraits are painted on buildings, framed in traffic circles, displayed in lobbies: Saddam drawing sword, Saddam on stallion, Saddam in sunglasses, Saddam in camouflage fatigues, Saddam looking like Xavier Cugat in white suit, Saddam slaying the infidels. In the city center is a new statue, 60 ft. high: Saddam, ramrod...
...quite have been another Roots, but the TV event that swept the country last week was no less stirring. The Civil War, Ken Burns' beautifully crafted series, got virtually unanimous raves from the critics before it was telecast. Even so, few expected that an audience of great size would sit still for the 12-hour, five-night history lesson -- a lesson, moreover, with almost no film footage to enliven it, no Hollywood gimmicks to romanticize it and no network publicity machine to hype...