Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...album starts off strongly with a dose of XTC's typical weirdness in "Garden of Earthly Delights." Dave Gregory's electric guitar adds an Arabian Nights effect above a barrage of tambourines, drums, and other percussion. Partridge's lyrics show a rare optimistic view of life ("This is your life and you be what you want to be. This is your life and you try it all,") while his voice stretches from one end of the scale to the other in a carefree lesson of the world's goodness...
...goal is to find a dose of ddC high enough to stop the virus from growing, but low enough not to cause nerve damage," Schooley added...
...Wall Street some traders noted with satisfaction that the rival Chicago markets, which many New York investors blamed for aggravating the stock-market crash of '87, were getting a dose of the scrutiny that the stock markets have long endured. Said the president of a Big Board firm: "There is some quiet delight that the Chicago boys are finally getting their comeuppance...
...that pace keeps up, the Fed may boost interest rates to restrain growth. Says Sinai: "The Fed has already tried to introduce a mild dose of tightening to slow the economy. But it just isn't working so far." Interest rates have been steadily climbing since March. The federal funds rate, which is the interest that banks charge one another on overnight loans, has increased from 6.5% to nearly 9.5% during the past nine months. Economists polled by TIME estimate that the prime lending rate will climb from its current 10.5% to 11% by June but will end the year...
...infinitely more prudent alternative appeared to be the 1989 New Yorker Diary. The ad promises that its "50 all-time classic" cartoons will "start each day with a smile." But such an enforced daily dose of risibility struck me as being a little like wearing a lampshade at a party while completely sober. Esquire is another competitor in this smile-button sweepstakes. Its diary boasts cartoons and ads drawn from the magazine's issues of 1939. Not, however, exactly the world's most fun year. Somehow the memory of Nazi troops pouring into Poland might mar my enjoyment of next...