Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's women fencers had a much easier time with St. Mary's, Notre Dame's sister school, later in the afternoon. The Crimson cruised to a 7-2 victory on the strength of Gulia Ciechetti's three victories...
High on the bankers' 1984 worry list were their loans to Latin American nations, which staggered under a $350 billion debt burden. In June representatives of the debtor countries huddled in Cartagena, Colombia, raising fears that they would form a cartel to bargain collectively for easier terms. Warned Colombian President Belisario Betancur: "We hear the far-off thunder of violent drums. We feel the winds of storms." Despite such rhetoric, most of the debtors chose negotiation over confrontation. Mexico persuaded the banks to stretch out its payments on $48 billion in loans, originally due between now and 1990, over...
...wine a second time inside the bottle. Until a few years ago, U.S. consumers regarded France's pricey bubbly as an indulgence reserved for weddings, New Year's Eve parties and World Series locker rooms. But the current strength of the dollar has brought French brands within easier reach of the average American. Mumm's Cordon Rouge and Perrier-Jouët's Grand Brut, both priced at about $20 two years ago, now sell in the U.S. for as little...
Father: So they came up with the idea of paying me and a bunch of the other lads severance to make way for younger workers. Mine amounts to $2,160, which isn't a lot. But to make it easier, they say I can give my job to a son or daughter who is at least 16. Now, since I don't have a daughter...
Lewis: It's the theory that Howard's friend Harry Evens, former ed for of the Sunday Times of London has said. "I don't want to have an easier libel law. Its a necessary discipline for us to have this tough...