Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Economy. With low inflation, a sustained though slowing recovery, and unemployment stable at a reduced rate of 7.5%, Reagan can rely on an incumbent's best defense: economic prosperity. He plans to deal with the one truly dark cloud, the deficit (projected at $174 billion this year) largely by ignoring it. In his Labor Day opener in California, he never even mentioned the word. Asked about the deficit two days later by businessmen at the Economic Club of Chicago, the President blandly replied that economic growth would produce higher revenues. To restrain congressional spending, Reagan again advocated a constitutional...
Before anyone could read women's frailty into the issue, Benoit added, "Wait until you see some of the men Sunday," when the race would be later in the day, and the cloud cover figured to be less. Aside from Pheidippides, the gasping Greek who established the marathon distance in his farewell appearance as a messenger, the most famous Olympic swooner before Andersen-Schiess was, of course, a man: Dorando ("Wrong Way") Pietri, an Italian who mislaid the finish line in 1908 in London...
...European Community official likened the information IBM will disclose to the details an automaker might provide tire manufacturers to make certain that their tires fit the wheels of the company's cars. IBM, for its part, was relieved to conclude the long-running dispute, which lifted a cloud from its European operations. IBM Chairman John Opel said the settlement satisfies the Community "without requiring us to make significant changes in the way we do business...
...before he even glimpses the dried-up bed of Lake Texcoco, now edged with miles of slum hovels, the first thing he sees is an almost perpetual blanket of smog that shrouds the entire city. It is an ugly grayish brown. There is something strangely sinister about it-a cloud of poison. The pilot orders the seat belts tightened and announces an imminent descent into the murk and filth...
...then there will be a day when the light comes in on a bright, sharp slant-clarity an artist lives for. Even drunks, then, can see the mortar between the bricks-and the place appeals and no longer seems absurd. An absolutely azure sky set off by a single cloud looking as if it were shot up there from a pastry chefs icing gun, that kind of a day. And everywhere houses cling to the cliffsides like cockleburs. Jade plants, looking like so many butter beans on a stick, grow high and thick out here, form hedges, give privacy. (Back...