Word: beating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior who got a "48" said the high scores mean little except that anyone can beat the test...
...Brooks. "He's not hot enough that he can make any film he wants ((with a top studio))," says the president of a major film studio. To date, most of the independent film companies that went public in the mid-'80s have been stock-market duds. Will Brooks beat the odds? Some Wall Streeters are cautiously optimistic: "Mel has the ability and contacts to make a success of this," says analyst Harold Vogel of Merrill Lynch. Even so, the title of Brooks' next film, Life Stinks, is not exactly bullish...
Gorbachev picked up the beat. When he arrived, he noted, "The naval ships have come on a mission of peace. This symbolism gives expression to the radical changes now sweeping the world as it shifts from confrontation." When wind forced the first meeting to be moved to the dockside Soviet cruise ship Maxim Gorky, Gorbachev remarked wryly, "The first thing to do is to eliminate those ships you cannot board in this kind of weather. We will have a secret agenda in this way to disarm the Sixth Fleet." That's the whole point, but it is quicker said than...
...stomach provides all the food and water that keep her on this side of existence. The cost of her care, $130,000 annually, is borne by the state (since she is not a minor, her parents are not held responsible for her debts). Doctors say her heart could beat and her lungs could breathe for 30 more years, but her parents want the feeding stopped so that she can die in peace...
...what do we have to talk about until the fateful day when our housing for the next three years is sealed? Just about everything. Our major problem at the moment is that we don't know how to beat the new housing system. We don't even know what that system...