Word: clips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gross national product during 1987. That compares with a 2.5% pace in 1986. The board's projection is even more optimistic than the average suggests, since it is based on the assumption that economic activity will pick up as 1987 progresses, ending the year at a 3.8% clip. Says Walter Heller, a University of Minnesota professor: "The winds of change are blowing...
...next position saw them and opened up. The ensuing fire fight was very messy. I was wounded in the back of the neck -- an inch to the right and I'd have been dead -- and the guy next to me had his arm blown off." He emptied his rifle clip at a man's feet, as Charlie does in the movie. "He wouldn't stop smiling," says Stone, "and I just got pissed off and lost it. But I did save a girl who was being raped by two of the guys; I think they would've killed...
Consequently, last Fourth of July, NBC featured a clip of Springsteen singing the chorus. Up With People sang it at the Superbowl halftime. Hulk Hogan played the song every time he entered the ring. And Chevrolet offered Springsteen $12 million to use the song for a commercial campaign...
Undeniably, individual investors, who still own $1.95 trillion in equities, or two-thirds of all U.S. stock, have been getting rid of their holdings at a swift clip. In 1985 U.S. households sold $122 billion more in stock than they bought, a record. This year the net sales are projected to reach $105 billion...
Want to fit in? Wear a tux. Want to hold your head high? Tie a piece of black silk under your Adam's apple. (Clip-ons are permissible -- if not entirely excusable -- only for maitre d's at restaurants that revolve atop the city's tallest building.) Want to -- be honest, now -- leave the party with some new company? Go in grosgrain...