Word: start
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Before the crisis broke, Shamir's Foreign Minister, David Levy, intended to visit Washington last week for what had promised to be a tough session. Secretary of State James Baker was prepared to bear down hard on the need to jump-start the peace process that Shamir let stall last spring. Both Bush and Congress have grown impatient with the Likud's ingenuity in finding excuses not to negotiate with the Palestinians...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C: (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
Lima went on a wild shopping spree last week as nervous consumers cleared store shelves of essential products like rice and oil in anticipation of shortages and steep price increases. The hoarding made an inauspicious start for President Alberto Fujimori, who began his five-year term last week without delivering an expected recovery plan to reduce rampant underemployment and curb the country's 3,000% 1989 inflation rate...
First developed in the Netherlands for racing on land, the Rollerblade idea was adapted for summer hockey training in the U.S. by Scott and Brennan Olson, both former high school players from Minneapolis. Their company, which started in a garage in 1980 and ultimately became Rollerblade Inc., initially sold in- line rollers to hockey players who attached them to their ice skates in the off-season. In 1987 Rollerblade decided to market the skates as a fitness product for exercise buffs. Rollerblades were slimmed down and painted a fashionable neon. The company also launched a secret marketing strategy. Realizing that...