Word: breathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governments from Japan to West Germany during recent weeks. Even more upbeat was the announcement that the U.S. trade deficit, the closely watched barometer of America's global competitive woes, improved by a gratifying degree during September. But at week's end the financial world was left holding its breath for what had been promised as the most reassuring development of all: a bipartisan agreement to cut the U.S. budget deficit. After three weeks of daily meetings, the 15 congressional and Administration leaders who constitute the special budget summit adjourned without reaching a compromise on billions of dollars...
...time when the Chinese have paused to catch their breath, the Soviets have spurted ahead in the more nebulous area of reform termed glasnost. Chinese Kremlin watchers were stunned when Gorbachev rebuked at least 16 ministers and party officials by name in his June speech to the Central Committee plenum. And nothing in China can quite compare with Soviet TV shows like Good Evening, Moscow and Dialogue, which mix news of perestroika with round-table discussions. A recent broadcast pitted squirming agricultural officials against incensed consumers, who waved bags of tasteless, undersized green apples at the camera and demanded...
Clearly, if the middle classes--whom rent control supporters allege would move out of Cambridge--themselves oppose rent control, then universal rent control is like parrying with a windmill, protecting against a threat that does not exist. Manhattan-haters can take a deep breath, get a hold of themselves, and sleep secure in the knowledge that Cambridge is safe...
Then there's the Ivy League sideshow--the "Starved Lion in a Cage." Ancient Eight basement dweller Columbia hasn't come up for a breath of victorious air in three years. Yes, the streak now stands at 36 games. Or is it 366? Who's counting...
...Daniel Ortega Saavedra have nothing in common. Both hold passionate beliefs. They just happen to believe exactly opposite things, as two emotional speeches demonstrated anew last week. "I make a solemn vow," Reagan promised at an Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Washington. "As long as there is breath in this body, I will speak and work, strive and struggle for the cause of the Nicaraguan freedom fighters." Specifically, Reagan pledged, he will fight for $270 million in renewed military and humanitarian aid to the contras to enable them to continue battling the Sandinista regime. The next...