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...more than a century, the name Wurlitzer has been a household synonym for high-quality musical instruments, from grand pianos to the imposing wood and gold-leaf scroll organs that boomed across sports stadiums and carnival midways. Although the 8,000-pipe "Mighty Wurlitzer" at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall is still in operation, the company that built it is struggling for its life, victimized by foreign competition, high interest rates and a weak economy. Together, these pressures have flattened sales of pianos and organs alike...
...synonym for "self-government for the Palestinians." (Sadat thought it sounded too much like Begin's "self-rule," and eventually I came up with "how the Palestinians shall govern themselves.") With great pressure I induced him to accept the language we had evolved on Jerusalem, provided there would be an exchange of letters reconfirming the historic U.S. position that East Jerusalem was part of the West Bank. Sadat agreed that the Wailing Wall should always be retained exclusively by the Jews...
...term "uncompromising attitude" and its synonym "intransigence" often creep into the political vocabularies of those who find it easier to reduce the complex Arab-Israeli conflict to a simple issue of Israeli stubbornness...
...Soviet lexicon, "Titoism" became a synonym for treason. But Tito did not buckle, even in the face of an economic boycott and Moscow's invasion threats. With Party Theoretican Edvard Kardelj and other close associates, he began mapping out a new form of Communism, vastly different from the Soviet model. Tito and his colleagues lifted harsh police controls on the population and reversed the policy of forced collectivization of farm land. They formulated the "self-management" system, under which factory employees and managers came to share in management decisions, decide on promotions and set their own wages...
Which of the following is the best synonym for acute: pretty, austere, chilly, sharp? One hundred such austere, even chilly, questions, were administered 50 years ago to University of Minnesota freshmen; they were also asked to answer questions based on about 40 short reading samples. The freshmen did pretty well: 60% were sharp (or acute) enough to get a score of 26 or better on the vocabulary test. Fifty years later, the man who devised the 1928 Minnesota test, Alvin C. Eurich, 77, now president of the nonprofit Academy for Educational Development, decided to give the very same exam...