Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overall banking industry are growing at an estimated 10% or better annually, and last week four of the major New York City institutions reported robust quarterly earnings. Along with the painful contraction taking place in the steel industry, the regional banking woes are the natural result of the ebb and flow of economic tides. While some players may founder, the system shows no signs of sinking...
...closed end of the Bay of Fundy are the highest in the world, rising and falling more than 50 feet every day. For the two fossil hunters clambering over the bordering cliffs near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, last summer, that presented a special problem. Timing their forays with the mighty ebb and flow, they often found themselves on isolated cliff faces, cut off by the surging water...
...should know. For the past 60 years the state agency has controlled the very ebb and flow of my livelihood--so to speak. When my grass gets overgrown, they trim it. When my streams get more polluted, they check my water quality for would-be swimmers. And when I need repairs, they...well...
...independent administration in South-West Africa, or Namibia, the neighboring territory that South Africa has controlled for the past 19 years in defiance of United Nations resolutions calling for independence for the area. Botha's remarks seemed specifically aimed at Washington, whose relations with Pretoria are at their lowest ebb since President Reagan entered the White House. Two weeks ago the U.S. recalled Ambassador Herman Nickel for consultations to express its anger over the Angola and Botswana raids. Said Botha: "If there are elements in Washington who think that South Africa is going to be run by the United States...
...called General George Marshall "a living lie" and "a front man for traitors." As head of the Internal Security Subcommittee, he conducted a noisy investigation of suspected Communists in the teaching profession. He saw the influence he had gained during the years of anti-Red hysteria begin to ebb with McCarthy's censure in 1954 and chose not to run for a third full term...