Word: clung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that there wasn't a lot to think about. Nine seconds remained in the Harvard women's basketball game and visiting Dartmouth clung precariously to a 50-49 lead...
Anyone who has so much as balanced a checkbook could have told the President that when he cut taxes but dramatically increased military spending he was paying the way for fiscal disaster. Nevertheless, he foolishly clung to the pipedreams of the supply sides who prophesied that cutting taxes would somehow magically increase government revenue. One discredited theory and $200 billion worth of red ink later, it is the less privileged who are paying for the President's foolhardy mistakes...
After intermission, the hosts came storming back, and with three minutes left in the contest, Harvard precariously clung to a 60-59 lead...
...families crouched for shelter against the chill mountain wind. The lucky ones had a branch to cover their dugout; others remained exposed to the elements. As soon as a foreign visitor appeared, the emaciated people took him for a doctor, crowded around and clutched at his trousers and clung to his legs, pleading for help. Half crazy for food, they trampled each other and knocked down their flimsy shelters in their rush to get to the foreigner...
...current boom has shattered some myths that once clung to the semiconductor industry like barnacles to a ship. Many experts had assumed that the high cost of developing chips would force all but giants like Texas Instruments and Japan's Hitachi out of the business. In fact, new small firms are thriving. At least 51 chipmakers sprang up between 1977 and 1983, including a record 16 last year...