Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...breach its barricades. At a time when budget zealots are attacking everything from Medicare to corporate welfare to whole Cabinet departments, the U.S. military has presented Congress with a plan to spend as much on new warplanes over the next decade as it did during the huge defense buildup of the 1980s. If Congress decides, as a growing number of experts have, that the proposal to spend a grand total of $415 billion over the next 35 years is unjustified, the task of balancing the federal budget could suddenly become a lot easier...
...know that 100 percent of Alzheimer's patients have the abnormal buildup of...the amyloid beta protein," Selkoe says...
CHAPTER FOUR: THE DRAMATIC BUILDUP...
...ourselves...with so much buildup for a few late afternoon encounters between the championship intramural soccer and football teams from Harvard and Yale...
This month, after almost a year of buildup, Mattel is rolling out a line of seven interactive products led by three Barbie programs. Analyst John Taylor of Arcadia Investment expects Barbie to be among the top software entertainment programs this Christmas. Unlike such shoot-'em-up, beat-'em-up boy toys as Doom and Mortal Kombat, the Barbie titles are notably pacific and based on creative play. "The demand will be many times higher than Mattel thinks it will be," predicts Gary Jacobson, a senior vice president at the brokerage Jefferies & Co., who has followed Mattel for a decade...