Word: dived
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the explanations for the dollar's dive were depressingly familiar: the continuing weakness of the nation's trade balance, lack of progress in Congress on an energy bill, persistent rumors that petroleum-exporting nations might be planning to stop pricing their oil in dollars and switch to a basket of stronger currencies. To that litany, businessmen, bankers and money traders added a couple of new elements: dismay at the lack of any sort of dollar-strengthening scheme to emerge from the economic summit in Bonn of the previous week, and a feeling that European leaders are making unexpected...
Richardson prefers working the Houses to assignments in Harvard's museums--which is what his summer work entails. The museum detail is either boring--"once you've seen those picures for two or three days, you've had enough"--or hair-raising. School children are the worst; they dive under the cases holding the irreplaceable glass flowers in the Peabody Museum and Richardson's heart skips a beat. He yells at them like an Army sergeant, he says...
...Sukhoi-15s fired two missiles at the plane; the first hit above the left wing, while the second missed entirely. The attack killed a Korean businessman and a Japanese tourist and depressurized the fuselage, forcing the pilot, Captain Kim Chang Kyu, to begin a steep dive to an altitude...
...conclusion, we find a dialectic in Lady Be Good--an unresolved dialectic. On one side stands the dumb dialogue, technical weakness and a lackluster beginning. On the other: great music, strong voices and peppy dancing. You just can't dive too deeply in the waters of this show. It's very pure, very shallow musical comedy...
...real disappointment for Harvard in the meet came when Jamie Greacen's foot slipped on his full twist two-and-a-half and he failed the dive. Greacen, who was diving well up to that point, thus received points for only ten dives while all other divers scored on the usual 11 dives. "It was just a freak thing," said a somewhat disappointed Walker, "but it happens to even the best divers." Nevertheless, Greacen will also make the trek to Long Beach by virtue of his fourth-place effort on the low board...