Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other news, the Boston Globe recently reported that the gap between Black and white infant mortality rates has widened, with the rate for Blacks lingering at the level found in many underdeveloped countries. This has a great deal to do with malnutrition and poverty, which the government is hell-bent on increasing by cutting back Food Stamps and other programs. On the question of unemployment, National Public Radio, like many other media outlets, a couple of weeks ago echoed the latest self-congratulations of the government, chirping happily about the "good economic news" that unemployment dropped slightly. A little later...
TIME selected two men who are bent on destroying our civilization...
...Wall Street, investors went on a binge that pushed volume on the New York Stock Exchange to an alltime one-day high. Moneymen had been expecting a year-end rally, but it never materialized. Then the bull market came roaring out of its pen as if it were bent on starting another rampage. Said William LeFevre, a market strategist with Purcell, Graham & Co.: "This was the week investors stopped looking at higher interest rates and started looking at corporate earnings." Trading on Thursday reached 159.99 million shares, well above the old mark of 149.35 million set two days after...
...Cynicism," wrote H.G. Wells, "is humour in ill-health." By this scale, "Washingtoon"'s humor is on the brink of terminal cancer. Like his colleagues at The Voice and every other American of liberal bent, Stamaty demonstrates that survival that which has become vital in America in the '80s; cynicism...
...become pro-Israel, pro-Phalange and anti-Muslim-and therefore prime targets for terrorist attack." Incredibly, according to the report, Marine Colonel Timothy Geraghty, commander of U.S. forces ashore in Lebanon, did not believe that his troops had authority to shoot at a civilian vehicle, even if it seemed bent on crashing into the Marine compound. This passivity is all the more astonishing given the fact that a truck bomb had destroyed much of the U.S. embassy in Beirut only six months earlier...