Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call was rich in irony. Blumenthal in 1977 won a global reputation as ''the man who talked the dollar down" because he argued that its drop would bring a beneficial increase in U.S. exports and thus was no cause for alarm...
...does avoid recession, it will be a close call. Real gross national product?output of goods and services, discounted for inflation?is rising about 4% this year. The Administration's 1979 target is 3%, a rate that would keep inflation from getting worse but might not be enough to prevent unemployment from rising above its October level of 5.8% (down slightly from 6% in September). Privately, however, Administration officials indicate that they would accept a growth rate of 2%, which would certainly mean more unemployment, even though the U.S. would probably not technically be in a recession...
...parties. Callaghan needs the votes, or at least the abstentions, of the nationalists this week in the vote of confidence that traditionally follows the Queen's speech after a debate on its content. By winning it, Callaghan should be able to stay in office until he decides to call elections, possibly in early spring or, at the latest, next October, when his government's statutory five-year mandate expires. As always in British elections, the timing will depend on the political winds. At the moment they are blowing Callaghan's way, in part because of the diverse...
...Then the call: "Jump run." We line up at the door. The first two members of our 16-man team are hanging out of the plane, grabbing the fuselage so we can go together. I stand, back to the open door, the balls of my feet balanced on the frame, feeling the surge of wind across my back. "Ready!" yells the team captain. "Ready!" we reply...
...would be false to call the Bard contemporary. His psychological insight may be keener than Freud's, and his social perceptions, about women and blacks for example, travel freely across the borders of age. But he was first and last an Elizabethan...