Word: barrelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police Lieut. Vincent Mora has just slipped between the sheets with Casino Singer Linda Moon when he hears a click at the door of his Atlantic City hotel room. With the barrel of his gun, he scoops up his Jockey shorts, pulls them on and is ready to meet the intruder. Wild shots are fired. The would-be killer escapes into the street with a chilly Mora in vain pursuit. On his way back to Miss Moon, he meets a drunk who gives him some sporting advice: "You should a bet your underwear. You never know when your luck...
...align their official rates with sagging world petroleum markets, nine of the 13 OPEC members reshuffled the prices of a variety of crudes they sell; the effect was to reduce the weighted average cost of an OPEC barrel of oil by 29 cents, although some grades will drop by more than $1. It was only the second price cut in the organization's 25-year history. The first came in March 1983, when sliding world crude prices forced OPEC to mark down its Arab Light benchmark crude...
...course, the universities which are dipping into the "academic pork barrel" are not "stealing," and there is even a strong argument in favor of their action. For example, if a college needs a new physics lab, why should it compete with the needs of other universities? Why shouldn't it instead just have a local Congressman slip through a piece of legislation that "directs" a federal agency to grant the money? In this way universities can obtain millions without subjecting the proposal to the highly competitive peer review system...
...system" plus "critical uncertainties." In the present context some of the major forces driving the system, and hence common to all scenarios, would seem to include moderate economic growth (no return to the rapid growth of the 1960's), a continuation of moderate oil prices ($15 to $30 per barrel over the period), increasing economic power for Japan and the gang of four, based on continued success as exporters of manufactures, and continuing slow growth and rising unemployment in most of Western Europe. It would also include the prospect of continuing deterioration of economic performance in most of Africa...
...England, France and the U.S. Although his research was thorough enough to produce a 700-odd item bibliography, Randall's greatest skill is portraiture. In A Little Revenge, both Franklins are vital, believable figures: Benjamin, "puffy and smooth from gout, his body overweight and rounded into the peculiar barrel shape of the once-powerful swimmer too long out of the . water"; William, "a smoother, thinner, sharper replica of his father, with the same impressive forehead, the same strong, straight nose apostrophizing the same set jaw and pronounced chin." Through his 20s, the younger Franklin is an almost biblical son, honoring...