Word: blows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lady: (Piping in) Why don't ya' just blow...
Harvard's third line suffered a debilitating blow in the Yale contest, when forward Julie Trotman broke her leg on her first shift of the game. Trotman, who scored her first career goal in the BU rout, was showing definite signs of improvement while fighting her way back from an earlier ankle fracture...
Plummeting oil prices can do both grievous harm and enormous good. Less expensive oil means lower energy costs for consumers and companies, which can give a substantial boost to U.S. and worldwide growth. At the same time, however, a further fall in oil prices could deal a crippling blow to U.S. energy firms and debt-ridden oil producers, including Mexico, Nigeria and Venezuela. Their woes might then threaten banks and rock the international financial system. Says Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential-Bache Securities: "The oil-price collapse suddenly woke people up to the fact that the financial crisis...
...single-combat warriors" was out-dated--and outmoded by the shuttle. Safe and reliable, the shuttle served the interests of RCA corporate chiefs and Star Wars fanatics alike. It would, of course, be hard to advocate putting millions of dollars of technology into space if the transport were to blow up every twenty trips or so. The point is, after all, that the shuttle was not a rocket, not a missile with a sardine-can-like warhead of astronauts. In the public mind, its very essence was "to shuttle," to safely carry human beings into space--and back again...
Rambo delivers the conclusive cultural death blow, once more reducing to cliche the well-worn notion that violence on TV and in the movie theatre is bad for kids. Sly's Rambo is a bull in the china shop of a young child's mind. Naturally, toy stores are packed with Rambo toys. In the spring, Coleco will release its Rambo product line, coinciding nicely with the premiere of the Rambo Saturday morning cartoon series. The big screen, it seems, is only the beginning...