Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into orbit. While American consumers enjoyed cheap imports and luxuriated in foreign travel bargains, U.S. manufacturers complained bitterly that they were being clobbered by overseas competitors. But early last year the dollar bailed out, with a slight push from anxious international moneymen. At first the decline was a gentle drift, but it is now showing signs of becoming a free fall. Since December the dollar has dropped by 19% against the Japanese yen and 8% against the West German mark. It dipped last week below 180 yen for the first time since October 1978, when the American currency seemed...
...Persian Gulf, Harbor Master Roger Turnbull begins each day in his control tower by counting the empty ships that appear on the horizon in their almost futile search for cargo to carry. One morning this month he counted 55, then two days later, 69. Says he: "They drift in during the night, and when we wake up, they're just sitting there waiting...
...murky outcome left the Administration in an excruciating dilemma. It was American unhappiness with the drift of Marcos' government and ensuing social restiveness in the Philippines that led him to call the surprise election last November. For months Administration officials had been publicly warning that the far-flung country was drifting toward a dangerous right-left polarization. On the right stands Marcos. On the left is an insurgency spearheaded by the estimated 16,500 members of the Communist New People's Army, which has been steadily gaining in force. As has happened so often before, the political center...
Experts say the move will acknowledge Harvard's decades-long drift away from an interdisciplinary approach to several social sciences and toward what one department member calls a "quasi-biological" view of psychology. According to experts, the Harvard department's name change could increase other universities' emphasis on the "hard science" aspects of psychology and might fuel the trend of psychologists who emphasize the "social" in social science to look for non-traditional academic arrangements...
...doesn't do nothing 'cept watch you as you drift down the drainage ditch. Floating, you can see an old man on the shore, touching up his hair with a two-bit comb, jawing on a wad of fresh Bazooka...