Word: bursting
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...actually made an abortive attempt to seize Austria in 1934, when some 150 SS men dressed in Austrian army uniforms burst into the Chancellery in Vienna and shot down Conservative Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. That was supposed to be the start of a Nazi coup, but Justice Minister Kurt von Schuschnigg rallied the police and had the assassins arrested. Italy, which had guaranteed Austrian independence, mobilized four divisions on the frontier. Hitler backed down. By 1938, however, he had built a threatening army and had won the support of Italy's Mussolini (they had signed a secret protocol in 1936 creating...
...came in for their share of problems. A Trump Shuttle 727 skidded to a stop in a shower of sparks at Boston's Logan Airport after its nose gear failed to drop for landing. An American Airlines 767 flying from Phoenix to Chicago landed in Albuquerque after a valve burst in its hydraulic system...
...burst of promotional activity reflects the networks' growing concern over competition from cable, VCRs and independent stations. The erosion was quickened by the writers' strike last year, which delayed the fall season and neutralized kickoff-week hoopla. "We're trying to find much more aggressive and interesting ways to wave to people, to grab them and interest them in our programs," says George Schweitzer, senior vice president of communications for third-place CBS, which increased its advertising budget by 25% this year...
Since the election, though, many Democrats have begun to see a certain expediency in welfare for the wealthy. The reason: a cut in the capital-gains tax would produce a burst of revenue for the Treasury, helping Congress meet its targets for reducing the federal budget deficit, at least in the short term -- the only term that seems to matter in Washington. During the first few years of a lower tax, investors would rush to realize the appreciation on their stocks and other assets and thus pay taxes on them earlier than planned. Once this spurt of early tax collections...
...Princeton/Newport executives tried to manipulate the market, starting in mid-1984, through a technique called stock parking. They arranged to sell some securities at a loss and then repurchase them at the same or slightly higher prices. The party ended one wintry day in 1987, when 50 federal marshals burst into the firm's offices, situated above a Haagen-Dazs shop in Princeton, N.J., and confiscated 255 boxes of company records and 336 hours of taped phone conversations...