Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...build one of the world's foremost military machines, and in the last 20 years of his reign spent a cool $36 billion on arms-Chieftain tanks from Britain, sophisticated F-14 fighter planes and Hawk and Phoenix missiles from the U.S. By the time the Khomeini revolution broke out, the Shah had placed orders that would have given Iran a 1980 supersonic fighter force larger than that of any Western country except...
Gueiler-or whoever will be running the country in the months ahead-faces some hard, unpopular decisions. In essence, Bolivia is broke. A representative of the International Monetary Fund has recommended a devaluation of the Bolivian peso, which is artificially pegged at 20 to the dollar, to help solve a complex of economic problems ranging from severe inflation to a foreign debt of $3 billion. Natusch, unrealistically, had promised to attack these economic woes by raising workers' salaries "without provoking inflation and without devaluing the currency...
...lost a close race [in the 200 free] earlier in the meet and didn't want that to happen again so I broke out and tried to get away right after the 100," the Ramsey, N.J., native said yesterday...
...arguments hissed after each other like a confused dog biting after its tail. Broke down and full of nonsense and waiting for the sunrise so he could sleep, he tried a different tactic: "Do you know about punji sticks...
...Crimson scored first in the third period and seemed to be taking control of the game, but a fight that broke out at 3:58 sent two players from each team into the penalty box and seemed to spark the flagging Terriers, who scored two goals in six seconds...