Word: underlying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Under Japan's constituency system, members of the same party often run against each other in the same district. Unable to campaign on different platforms, the candidates stump on their ability to bring special benefits like new roads and factories to their towns. Nisei have a distinct advantage because they...
After a grim childhood and some harsh early jobs, a young servant named Mary Reilly finds employment in a comfortable London house. Mary's literacy -- unusual among 19th century domestics -- enables her to keep a diary. In it she jots down the details of her work and notes the kind...
Under the reorganization, the Cutlass Supreme was subsumed into the $5 billion GM-10 project, which also developed versions of the Buick Regal and the Pontiac Grand Prix, all of which shared components with one another. In spite of GM's huge investment in retooling and reorganization, the result was...
GM Europe's 200-employee corporate staff in Zurich is known for moving with great speed, notably in its agreement last December to acquire 50% control of Swedish carmaker Saab for $600 million. GM whisked Saab from under the nose of Fiat, which until the last minute thought it would...
In 1947 the U.S. gross national product was $235 billion. That's about $1.4 trillion in today's money. Over the next four years America spent $13.6 billion -- almost $80 billion in today's money -- reviving capitalism and securing democracy in Western Europe under the Marshall Plan.