Word: blow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roaring back: last week the Government reported that in April wholesale prices skyrocketed at an annual rate of 8.9%, the worst monthly performance since October 1985. For the same period, industrial production fell by .4%, the steepest drop in more than a year. The bad news dealt a sharp blow to the seemingly irrepressible stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 52.97 points on Friday, the fourth largest one-day decline in history, to close...
...actress named Donna Rice, 29, whose half-clad modeling photos soon graced newsstands across the country. Hart was forced to concede that he had also taken an overnight boat trip from Miami to Bimini with Rice and two other people on a yacht called Monkey Business. But the final blow came when a Washington Post reporter called campaign officials midweek with evidence of a recent liaison between Hart and a Washington woman. The threat of further revelations prompted Hart and his plucky wife Lee to suspend campaigning in New Hampshire and fly to Denver for the ritual hoisting...
...Dame.) With this spiritual nourishment fed into a healthy ego, he retains a natural sense of command. "The very essence of leadership is you have to have a vision," he says. "It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." During student unrest in the '60s, he told the university community that protesters would be given 15 minutes to decide whether to desist or be suspended. Despite some grumbling from students, the ultimatum resulted in a calm few other campuses experienced...
...record as an officer in the German army during World War II, Waldheim has not formally received even one foreign head of state or paid a single official visit abroad, duties that are the stock-in-trade of his largely ceremonial office. Last week, in the most damaging blow yet, the Reagan Administration barred Waldheim from traveling...
...forthcoming book, The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market, Soros argues that a financial disaster of some kind is quite likely in the future, but that governments will coordinate their economic policies to avert calamity. Whichever way the economic winds blow, Soros intends to profit from them. All the evidence so far strongly suggests that he will, and handsomely at that...