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...dining hall during Reading Period while everyone else was trying to study. What made this guy so bad is that he realized the evil of his ways. He tried to nibble quietly, then to suck on the chips, but he never did what we all wanted him to do--choke...

Author: By James E. Canning, | Title: Ten Little Turkeys | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

Major-league Choke...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Pursuing Fun, Sun, and Win | 12/4/1987 | See Source »

...When you choke," Delaney Smith said, "you can either roll over and die or get tough. We got tough [against...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Perspective | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...money into the economy and reduce interest rates. But in doing so, the Administration has had to make a sacrifice, the U.S. dollar. Treasury Secretary James Baker, the chief architect of the plan, maintains that any additional attempt to prop up the dollar with relatively high interest rates could choke the economy and further devastate the stock market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking The Other Way | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...ability to borrow so heavily depends on foreign buyers of U.S. bonds, whom the Government lures by keeping domestic interest rates at relatively high levels. If those investors were to lose confidence in the U.S. and start pulling out their money, interest rates could rise to heights that would choke the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Ripe for a Crash? | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

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