Word: start
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Slippery Start...
Thus, although the African continent claims more than 40 nations and countless contributions to American culture, African studies is woefully neglected at Harvard. At the start of the proposed $2.5 billion fund drive that will set the research priorities of the University for years to come, we continue to urge the administration to look beyond the lure of lucre and accord proper recognition to non-traditional fields that are not as popular with the deep-pockets...
...opportunity to cement our relationship with the customer right from the beginning," says Dave Illingworth, general manager of Lexus in the U.S., which picked up the undisclosed cost of the recall operation. That assiduous concern has paid off in spectacular fashion: from a cold start one year ago, Toyota's luxury division in July swept past both Mercedes-Benz and BMW in the vital U.S. auto market. Although Mercedes retook the lead during August, the Lexus performance sent shock waves through the global auto industry. BMW and Mercedes have seen their U.S. sales dip 29% and 19%, respectively, over...
...studio Morris is the galvanizing leader. Tossing his long black curls, he tears into every move, often with a soda can in hand and a cigarette dangling from his lips. "Shall we start with the frustrating part or the even more frustrating part just ahead of it?" he asks his eight dancers, speaking of a passage in a rather classical-looking piece he is setting to a showy swatch of Saint-Saens. When people start tiring, he is reluctant to lose momentum, but when he offers a choice of beverages or minuets in mock airline- ese, the choice is soft...
...striving for little stylistic flourishes. NBC's American Dreamer, starring Robert Urich as a newspaper columnist raising two kids, features Our Town-style narration. Working It Out, another NBC sitcom, with Jane Curtin and Stephen Collins as divorced people who meet cute at a cooking class, chronicles the start of their relationship in flashbacks from both points of view, as they confide in their best friends...