Word: almost
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Game time is almost two hours away in cozy Arlington Stadium as the Texas Rangers take batting practice. Along the baseline, hefting a bat like a mace of office, George Walker Bush ambles through his own pregame drill. He chats up players and reporters and makes small talk with fans, using a down-home twang and slang that belie ten years of New England schooling. They seek his autograph as eagerly as they do the players'. Bush scribbles on a baseball, a hat, a scrap of paper. On this warm summer evening, not one sportswriter or spectator asks about...
...pleased with the decision," he added that Soviet-bloc countries lack the marketing skills and hard currencies necessary to produce strong sales volume. Even so, hackers in Moscow were excited by the prospect of more American computers. "This is very important to us," said a Soviet computer importer. "Almost every day we have customers who come to our office ready to do business...
...front of Communist Party headquarters in the Ukrainian city of Makeyevka, 5,000 miners in battered helmets, their faces and overalls black with coal dust, staged a sit-in to demand better working and living conditions; their ranks eventually swelled to almost 150,000 from 94 mines. Far to the east, in the Kuzbass in Siberia, the numbers were even greater. About 180,000 miners abandoned their pits to occupy central squares in nine cities, plastering reviewing stands with homemade signs proclaiming DOWN WITH BUREAUCRATS and KUZBASS: CLEAN AIR, MEAT FOR EVERYONE, WE DEMAND SOCIAL JUSTICE...
Gorbachev appears to be attempting to turn the strike wave into a deeper popular commitment to his aims. While he sounded a warning that labor unrest "could damage everything we are doing," he spoke almost admiringly of how the strikers were behaving "in a responsible, organized and disciplined fashion...
...signals are abundant that the nearly seven-year-old expansion is stagnating. Retail sales are anemic, business inventories are growing, industrial output is shrinking, and the housing industry is struggling. Economists almost uniformly agree that growth during the next year will be very slow, but are divided about whether the U.S. will fall into a recession. The optimists forecast a "soft landing," characterized by minimal growth but no severe dislocation; the pessimists believe the long-running expansion is due for a bona fide recession, with widespread bankruptcies, loan defaults and layoffs...