Word: cough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fifteen years. Please join me in a polite cough. For a mere trillion-dollar investment our nation can attempt to produce a space-based military technology that, by its own estimates, should attain obsolesence within a decade of its conception...
...fact, the only problem I had on the flight to LaGuardia was the girl sitting next to me, a short hairy creature with the most annoying laugh I have ever heard in my life, a dry croaking hiccup which made it sound as if she were trying to cough up a large and unwieldy insect. Unfortunately, she found her shorter, hairier traveling companion a source of boundless levity, and by the time we landed it was all I could do to keep from plunging my plastic cheese knife into...
...move very far in the first half, its defense managed to contain a potent Cabot-North squad. The Quadlings, who scored 78 points in the previous five games, had to settle with just six at halftime, as Quincy held Roper to just 23 yards overall and forced him to cough up the ball twice...
After an exchange of punts, the Bruins fumbled again. Charging defensive end K.C. Smith forced Kettelberger to cough up the ball at his own nine...
Richardson-Vicks, which sells such popular products as NyQuil cough syrup and Clearasil acne cream, agreed to sell out to Procter & Gamble for $1.24 billion and thus avoid a bid from Unilever. Revlon, which markets items ranging from Charlie perfume to Tums antacid tablets, eluded Pantry Pride by accepting a buy-out offer of about $1.7 billion from Forstmann Little. If the deals go through, Richardson-Vicks and Revlon will join General Foods (Jell-O, Maxwell House coffee) and Nabisco (Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers) on the list of consumer-goods titans being taken over this year...