Word: bout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demand in the economy without enlarging the supply of goods and services. Military expenditures also absorb capital investment that might have been used to increase productivity in other areas of the economy. The Viet Nam War, for example, is generally blamed for starting the current 15-year-long bout with inflation...
When the Union trying to enlist clerical and technical workers in the Medical Area lost its first bout with Harvard in June 1977, organizers vowed to return within a year...
...exhibit much more vigor than most observers had thought possible. This year, after all, was once widely expected to produce another recession. To be sure, some Cassandras, including several top officials in the Reagan Administration, warned that the economy's improvement was largely illusory and that a renewed bout of business stagnation might hit by this summer...
...widen to include not only athletes who have played in South Africa and those who have visited there for sporting events, but also athletes who play against South African teams on their own soil. Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Floyd Patterson was named simply because he attended a boxing bout held in South Africa as a spectator. The British cricketer expelled from Guyana, Robin Jackman, was so treated because he is married to a South African and spends the whiter in that country. Fearing boycotts, Australia has even refused the South African Springbok rugby team permission to land there...
...always considered one another to be like brothers." Santee has been the prodigy, a flash who entered senior competitions at 14, only to have his spirit broken by repeated defeats by older skaters. Santee helped revive his confidence by imagining himself as Sylvester Stallone preparing for the big bout in Rocky. He even made the film's sound track his skating music. Now he prepared for one last fight. "I'm going to go out and at least show them that if [Hamilton's] going to beat me, he's going to feel...