Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talks now somewhat wistfully of his five-game Beanpot career. "My years in the Beanpot the team didn't really play that well," he says. "Who knows the reason? My first two years we had a young team, but last year we had 12 seniors." As for the infamous "choke" rap on the Eagles. O'Connor doesn't deny it outright. "Everyone blames Len Ceglarski, but there are 25 guys out there...
...such as now prevails, the record Government deficits will prove hugely disruptive once the economy begins to recover. That is because the borrowings needed to cover them would tend to "crowd out" private corporations from the nation's credit markets, forcing interest rates to levels that would either choke off growth altogether or else compel the Federal Reserve to expand the money supply so rapidly as to rekindle inflation...
...strongly suggests that acid rain combines with traces of toxic metals emitted into the atmosphere by fossil fuel-burning plants to leach away nutrients that sustain trees. In addition, scientists believe the mixture of acid rain and aluminum trace elements in the soil is absorbed by roots and can choke off a tree's water supply...
...peak on which Lord Olivier finds himself now, nearly 50 years after he posed for the artist. The first actor to be elevated to the peerage in the 600-year history of the House of Lords, he has so many honors that even he sometimes seems to choke on the incense. At 75 he has decided it is time to blow away some of the smoke and tell his own story. His autobiography, which he aptly titles Confessions of an Actor, Laurence Olivier, came out in Britain in October and will be published in the U.S. next month (Simon & Schuster...
...economic news, a maddeningly familiar mixture of plus and minus signs. The pluses: lower interest rates, higher housing starts, more stock-market exuberance. Big minus: very sluggish production. The Congress to be chosen next week will have to decide how to trim gargantuan budget deficits that threaten to choke off the recovery whenever it does come...