Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seen it coming. Said Rimmer De Vries, chief international economist of New York City's Morgan Guaranty Trust: "The suspension of payments is not a surprise to the banks. What is difficult to understand, however, is how things could have deteriorated so quickly. Brazil has gone completely over the cliff...
...staying at home just isn't special enough for some people, like R. Cliff Young '89. "We'd go to Paris on the Concorde and spend the night, which is the afternoon here, have dinner, walk along the Seine and then go out dancing. Then we'd fly back to New York and do the same thing," Young says...
...there can be no Bacchic revelry for modern man: our sex must be safe. It is impossible to speak of safe love. Falling in love, like falling off a cliff, involves risks. Modern man dislikes risks. Love can't be made safe, but sex can. Modern technology helps out. It has succeeded in making sex safe and sterile. Just like modern man himself...
Taunted by a Marine drill instructor who called them "weenies" and some names not fit to print, the actors rappelled down a 50-ft. tower and clambered up an 80-ft. cliff. They were scared witless by special-effects mortar blasts, booby traps and "enemy" ambushes. Dinner was cold Army rations slathered with Tabasco sauce. Sleep meant grubbing a two-man foxhole and dozing in fitful two-hour shifts, interrupted by guard duty and gunfire. And that was only prelude. Filming of Platoon commenced only after two intense weeks of slogging in the bush...
Famed for their virtuous works and pious Coach Paterno ("St. Joe" to Miami counterpart Jimmy Johnson), the Nittany Lions were outrushed moderately and outpassed spectacularly throughout a battle that only they appeared to be waging from the edge of a cliff. For a considerable time, Penn State's offensive star was not D.J. Dozier but Punter John Bruno. While it is true that, in the final analysis, the Lions seemed a bit smarter than Miami, it is truer that they were a lot meaner...